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 Why Do We Educate? Voices from the Conversation was edited by David Coulter of the University of British Columbia and John Wiens of the University of Manitoba. Gary Fenstermacher of the University of Michigan served as senior editor. As Fenstermacher notes in his foreward, "Our concerns are that too many public discussions of education are dominated by too few ideas. These discussions are far too few in number, and when they do occur, they are frequently dominated by the strident voices of special interests. Too often they take place in legislative chambers and court rooms that are far away from the parents and children who must accept their consequences. And sadly, they all too frequently focus on notions of human potential that are neither compelling nor imaginative. This volume is an effort to address these faults."
Responses from the contributors (listed below) represent, in the words of Gary Fenstermacher, Senior Editor, "an invitation to all who are interested in education to enter the dialogue about its purposes and its processes.... The essays are designed to open pathways of inquiry into the foundational purposes of education in democratic societies. They are designed to assist, to provoke, and to advance vitally important discourse about education."
Please renew or begin a membership in NSSE and take advantage of the opportunity to receive these this volume and its companion, which will offer contemporary and historical perspectives on education and its purposes.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Princeton University
Deborah Lowenberg Ball, University of Michigan
Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hyman Bass, University of Michigan
Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin
Eamonn Callan, Stanford University
David L. Coulter, University of British Columbia
Joseph Dunne, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University
Kieran Egan, Simon Fraser University
Gary D. Fenstermacher, University of Michigan
Ursula M. Franklin, University of Toronto
Joannie Halas, University of Manitoba
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jeanne Kentel, University of Leeds
Janice Kinghorn, Antioch College
Lars Løvlie, University of Oslo
Randall Nielsen , Kettering Foundation
Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts
Nel Noddings, Stanford University
Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Ken Osborne, University of Manitoba
Diane Ravitch, New York University
John R. Wiens, University of Manitoba
Ian Winchester, University of Calgary and Oxford University
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Work has begun on the 2009 volumes, which will focus on Education and Localism (edited by Robert Crowson and Ellen Goldring) and Education and Globalism (edited by Tom Popkewitz and Fazal Rizvi). These promise to be important and timely contributions to the ongoing series of NSSE Yearbooks.
Teachers College Record will soon be issuing a call on its website for NSSE Yearbook proposals for 2010, as they take over editing and publication responsibilites. With assistance from Debra Miretzky from NSSE and TCR’s editorial board, TCR’s editors will review these proposals and select the two that appear most promising. It is our hope that this formal call and review process, as well as TCR’s careful work with the chosen Yearbook editors, will produce future Yearbooks with the same high quality that we are used to seeing from NSSE for many years to come.
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| NSSE Announcements | Society to close: Yearbooks moving to Teachers College Record
The National Society for the Study of Education will be dissolving as a membership Society by the end of the calendar year 2008, though its Yearbooks will continue to be published without interruption. For a number of reasons, it has become financially untenable to continue as a staffed organization with a governing board and membership obligations in this time of reduced budgets and competing resources. After many years of carefully weighing our options, the current Board of Directors voted on May 30, 2008, to dissolve the Society and transfer the rights for publication of all forthcoming Yearbooks (as well as the remaining assets of the Society) to the Teachers College Record (TCR), at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City.
The Board believes that TCR and NSSE share a natural affinity, in that they both have similarly long and impressive histories of publishing important scholarship in the field of education, and are unique in that regard. We have worked out financial and logistical arrangements, and trust that you will agree with the Board’s choice to make TCR the new home of the Yearbooks. TCR plans to finish digitizing the NSSE archives (and will continue to make these available free of charge to current members and to non-members for a fee). In addition, TCR will aggressively work on marketing volumes, both historical and current, in creative and useful ways.
The website will continue to operate for at least the rest of the 2008 calendar year. Timely notice will be posted of our transition to the TCR website, and we will provide instructions for accessing our content there (at www.tcrecord.org).
For the 2009 volumes onward, TCR will handle NSSE’s yearbook subscriptions electronically, as they currently do for subscriptions to that journal. When the transition takes place we will send out instructions for all current members explaining how to renew NSSE subscriptions electronically through TCR. We will also be sure that NSSE members’ contact information and credit card information is transferred to TCR in a secure manner, or will provide you an opportunity to opt out of this transfer.
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