Philosophical Studies in Education 42, 2011
Table of Contents
EDITORS PAGE
INTRODUCTION
- Introduction, Sheron Fraser-Burgess … 1
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
- An Enlightenment “Experience” and Plato’s Parable of the Cave: Reflections on a Vision-Quest Gone Awry, Kerry Burch … 6
PHIL SMITH LECTURE
- Trudge Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in Education, William Ayers … 17
ARTICLES
Rival Visions: J.J. Rousseau and T.H. Huxley on the Nature (or Nurture) of Inequality and What It Means for Education, Kevin Currie-Knight … 25
Should Children Learn to Solve Problems?, Joseph Watras … 36
On the Possibility of Friendship Between Teachers and Students, Gregory Loving … 44
Ideological Critique and Ethical Leadership, Joseph Scalia III and Lynne Scalia … 55
Culturally Relevant Teaching and the Concept of Education, Kelvin Beckett … 65
Tasseography: Reading Post-Racial Resistance to Teaching, Akil Houston … 76
The Logic of German Monism and U.S. Public Schools: A Philosophical Inquiry, Benjamin H. Welsh … 88
John Locke and the Myth of Race in America: Demythologizing the Paradoxes of the Enlightenment as Visited in the Present, Theresa Richardson … 101