Offers both theoretical and practical insights into the dialogue between adults and children as a democratic model for schooling.

Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.

Through a philosophical lens, this book explores the powerful educational capabilities of classic psychedelics.

Provides a new conceptualization of curriculum and of curriculum planning that is clearer, more functional, more adequate than those previously available.

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

A Philosophy of Music Education is considered the classic text on the relation of aesthetics to the practical teaching and performing of music.

Questions universities’ increasing reliance on market-oriented metrics to determine their strategic directions and gauge faculty productivity.

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin.

Explores the effectiveness and value of meditation in a college classroom.

A rich collection of essays about the inner, shared experiences of participants engaged in second-person approaches to contemplative practice.

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.

Examines key theoretical aspects of the emerging field of second-person contemplative education.

Demonstrates how students and educators can resist narrow, utilitarian views of higher education’s purpose.

Offers a new view of pedagogical practices to psychoanalysts interested in pedagogy.

Tells the fascinating story of the Progressive Education movement of the 1930s and 1940s.

Explores the nature and role of wisdom in education.

A highly accessible reading of Whitehead's writings on education and their connection to his metaphysics.

Reinvigorates Jürgen Habermas’ early critical theory.

Explores the contemporary pedagogical significance of modernism.

Explores how Darwin’s theory of human nature can inform educational philosophy.

A startling reading of the educational enterprise through a psychoanalytic lens.

Argues against the “culture of science” currently dominating education discourse and in favor of a more critical understanding of various modes of inquiry.

Presents John Dewey’s theory of inquiry and applies it to various areas of the primary, middle, and secondary school curricula.

Explores the significance of Dewey’s thought on democracy for the contemporary world.

Provides a clear assessment of all sides of the school choice debate.