In this essay, Paula McAvoy critiques a commonly held view that teaching young people to be good choice makers should be a central aim of sex education. Specifically, she argues against David Archard's recommendation that sex educators ought to focus on the development of autonomy and teaching young people that "choice should be accorded…

In this paper, I first examine the three justifications most often provided for differentiating, discounting, or even disclaiming the present generation's moral responsibility to future generations. I then discuss ideological critiques of, and educational solutions to, the complicity of formal educational institutions in propagating these…

An aesthetic object can have moral implications for the viewer; it can affect his moral deliberations and derivative conduct. The characteristic aesthetic forms of a society reflect a structure of feeling operant in that society's total being. (JD)

In this review essay, Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe explore the history of the culture wars in public education in the United States. Drawing on three books--David Tyack's "Seeking Common Ground," Jonathan Zimmerman's "Whose America?" and Amy Binder's "Contentious Curricula"--Kantor and Lowe review the history of…

Discusses ways that college faculty educate for an enriched public conversation, examining how a bicultural identity can decenter normatives, suggesting alternative models for understanding and thinking, and arguing that faculty whose intelligence has been formed by the experiences of concomitant cultural exile and naturalization are experts in…

Examines various ways that doubts about the possibility of educating someone may be intended, focusing on the one that is philosphically and culturally the deepest and most important. The paper discusses Socrates' educational philosophy and looks at education and self-deception, education and ethics, and education and culture. (SM)