The Educational Conversation

<p><b>Discusses topics normally excluded from the current educational conversation such as soul authority irony memory style luck privacy power and hospitality.</b></p><p>This book brings together a distinguished group of philosophers of education dealing with important thought often neglected: ideas and concerns in teaching learning and teacher education. The authors engage in an extended discussion of the moral dimensions of teaching that leads in a fresh direction distinct though related to the important work of Goodlad and others in recent years. Nel Noddings's foreword places the book firmly in current debates about teaching and learning particularly stressing its importance to teacher education in difficult times. Contributors include Nicholas C. Burbules Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon James W. Garrison Anthony G. Rud Jr. Shirley Pendlebury Alven Neiman Leonark Waks C. J. B. Macmillan and Daniel P. Liston.</p>