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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."
Please see an author list to the right and sample the freely accessible chapter (above).
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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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| Recent Community Announcements |
An encounter with the "unnetted" in education
Please review and pass on The Unnetted - Rank by Communications - If you are not part of any network, you do not exist - It is about the voids in education related to workers having no voice in the process of globalization - See http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com
Web Site: http://unnettedjourneys.filetap.com | NEED BACK VOLUMES OF YEARBOOKS
Dr. Robert Otey of Concordia University in Texas is looking to complete his collection of NSSE yearbooks and is interesting in acquiring yearbooks from 1957 and back to complete a set. If you have any yearbooks that you are willing to part with, you can contact him at Robert.Otey@concordia.edu
| Education Experts Needed
Kay Dorko, of Editorial Projects in Education (kdorko@epe.org) would like to be able to contact other members for the reporting staffs of Education Week and Teacher magazine when they need background in the following areas: Administration, Educational Policy and Politics, School Reform, Teacher Education, Assessment and Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Technology. Please let her know if you are interested in this opportunity.
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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.
In the interim between now and the transition period, we at NSSE will continue to keep you apprised of further details pertinent to our transition. Please contact Debbie Miretzky if you have questions (dmiret1@uic.edu).
| Dr. Margaret Early passes away
Margaret Early passed away on Saturday morning,
June 28, at her home in Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Early was on the NSSE board for a number of years and assisted Ken Rehage in editing several volumes of the annual yearbook. She was a longtime supporter of the Society. A memorial service was conducted on Thursday, July 3 in Gainesville. She will be missed by many.
| CONTACT NSSE
nsse@uic.edu |  Why Do We Educate yearbook
Volume 1 of the WDWE yearbook for 2008 is on its way to the publisher. This volume will reflect a scholarly focus that invites thoughtful reflection on a question that is sorely neglected: Why do we educate in a democratic society?
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
| MEMBER ADVANTAGE: FREE ONLINE ACCESS TO FOUR ADDITIONAL JOURNALS
NSSE members who are current enjoy electronic access to four Blackwell journals:
* Educational Theory
* Curriculum Inquiry
* British Journal of Educational Technology
* British Journal of Educational Studies
Simply sign in, scroll down to the lower right hand corner, and click!
|  New Publishing Partnership:
National Society for the Study of Education and Blackwell Publishing
NSSE has contracted with Blackwell Publishing for publication and distribution services, beginning with the 2005 yearbooks. Blackwell Publishing President Gordon Tibbitts comments, "We are honored to have the Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education added to our strong and growing education list. Their work, dating back to John Dewey in 1901, offers a powerful lens on the development of education in America."
Regular membership at a $40 annual rate will continue to be available to individuals, and will include electronic access to the current volume. Institutions and libraries should contact:
Blackwell Publishing Journals Customer Service
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
800-835-6770 or 781-388-8200 or email to
subscrip@bos.blackwellpublishing.com
Effective January 1, 2005, Blackwell is the distributor for past volumes, as well as all future volumes of the Yearbook. |
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