Education on the Brink

CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; About the Series; Foreword (Bryan T. Peck); Preface; Society, World's Second Curriculum Poem Questions from Beyond: Educational Queries for a New Millennium; Education for Ireland: The Real Problem, Robert Young's A Critical Theory of Education: Habermas and Our Children's Future -- A Review; John Dewey and Education for Life in an American Democracy; On Goals for American Education: an Overview; What All Schools Need; Let's Hear it for Accountability; How Can We Integrate Children Into the Life of the Student?; How Children Learn Alienation; Lifelong Education; Creativity and Children; G.H. Meade: Implications for Curriculum Theory; Curriculum Development: Some Approaches; Values Development as Content for the Curriculum; Developing Curriculum Change in the Inner City: The Providence Experience Community; The Urban Educational Center: Exercise in Curriculum Building; The Teacher as Agent for Change; The Focus of Humanism and the Teacher; Conversations with Teachers; Education Beyond Surprises; Dimensions for the Future; Index.