Introduction Differing Perspectives on What It Means to Be Educated 1  Socrates and Plato 2  Aristotle 3  John Locke 4  Jean-Jacques Rousseau 5  Catharine Macaulay 6  Conflicting Educational Visions:The Puritans and Thomas Jefferson 7  Local vs. Centralized Control of Schooling 8  John Dewey 9  Traditional versus Progressive Education:The Great Debate 10  Education:  The Panacea for African-Americans 11  Maxine Greene 12  Jane Roland Martin 13  Paulo Freire 14  Nel Noddings 15  Philosophy for Children: Matthew Lipman, Gareth Matthews, and Kieran Egan 16  Parker J. Palmer  

Selections from a diverse range of thinkers and educators, including Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Greene, Paulo Freire, Jane Roland Martin, and Parker J. Palmer, exposes the reader to perspectives on what it means to be educated often omitted from other anthologies.A comprehensive introduction assists the reader in placing both classical and contemporary thinkers in a philosophical context, and helps the reader to better understand the educational significance of each of the great minds included in this edition.End-of-chapter questions allow readers to better process, understand, and analyze what they have just read, while chapter introductions give the students a historical and philosophical context to what they are about to read.

A change in focus from the ideally education individual to what it truly means to be educated provides both prospective and practicing educators with the most relevant historical and philosophical foundations of contemporary education. This fresh focus is reflected in the following new chapters: New Chapter 6: “Conflicting Educational Visions: The Puritans and Thomas Jefferson”New Chapter 7: “Local Versus Centralized Control of Schooling”New Chapter 9: “Traditional Versus Progressive Education: the Great Debate”New Chapter 10: “Education: The Panacea for African-Americans”New Chapter 15: “Philosophy for Children”A revised introductory chapter reflects the overall change in focus to what it means to be educated and is updated and revised with the most current information.A new topical table of contents enables readers to better connect documents with critical educational issues like race, multiculturalism, and education; gender issues and education; traditional versus progressive perspectives on education; the relationship between religion and education; and the relationship between education and democracy.Thorough revisions and editing throughout the text ensures relevancy and accuracy and makes certain that all information is current and correct.