This article discusses in detail the goals of multicultural education for young children. Specific goals include the following: (1) culturally responsive teaching; (2) developing identities; (3) broadening perspectives and creating connections; (4) critical thinking; and (5) social activism. With emphasis on these goals, multicultural education…

Liberals champion the view that promoting autonomy--seeing to it that our children develop into individuals who are self-governing in the conduct of their lives--is a vital aim of education, though one generally accredited as being subsidiary to well-being. Our prime goal in this article is to provide a partial validation of this liberal ideal…

In this essay, Benjamin Baez and Susan Talburt analyze the U.S. Department of Education's Helping Your Child Series to consider how the government of children, families, and schools reflects a concern with two seemingly unrelated political objectives of neoliberal projects: creating responsible, self-reliant citizens and making schools more…

This paper is a contribution to the debate in Germany and beyond in Europe on future directions for education. It builds on and extends earlier work by the authors, on democratic experimentalism (Moss, 2009; Fielding & Moss, forthcoming) and early childhood workforce professionalism (Urban, 2008, 2009, 2010; Dalli & Urban 2010). At a time…

The purpose of this article has been to set the record straight as to the extent to which education of the mind and hands was prevalent in the United States prior to the 1880s. This effort is necessary since the proponents of the manual training curriculum that surfaced in the United States in the 1880s created a misperception that no prior form…

According to the "fragmentation objection" to multiculturalism, practices of cultural recognition undermine political stability, and this counts as a reason to be sceptical about the public recognition of minority cultures, as well as about multiculturalism construed more broadly as a public policy. Civic education programmes, designed to promote…

In Australia, as in the UK, much of the skills debate in research education has reflected a deficit model, whereby candidates are deemed to be in need of supplementary training. In response to the demands of employers and governments, most universities have added employability skills to postgraduate curricula, while simultaneously boosting their…

This article discusses the contributions to this special issue of "Teacher Education Quarterly." At the core of all the contributions is the compellingly urgent realization that humanity is facing, and must deal with, enormous ecological and social problems and challenges. This situation has created an urgent and compelling need centered…

Political legislation clearly indicates this is "the era of assessment." The assessment effort has deep intellectual roots within Western culture's Enlightenment ideal of public display and discussion of knowledge. However, a confounding of this cultural ideal occurs when a lack of communication between leaders in higher education and…

Isocrates of ancient Greece attempted to create a wise and educated person in his school, not just an orator. His philosophy centered around the fact that teaching speech is not an exact science, but an art of opinions and beliefs that will educate the student to make sensible choices in life and speech, demonstrate a noble character, and be…

This paper attempted to piece together the constituent elements of J. F. Herbart's educational theory, not to attempt a comprehensive re-assessment. (Author/RK)

The author discusses some of the breakthroughs in learning theory (primarily the contributions of Glaser and Bloom) that have led to new ways of looking at learning potential and achievement and the recognition that every student has a right to learn, even though it may call for extra duty from the system. (Author)

This document presents an analysis of a book by Mao Tse-tung, synthesizing Mao's philosophy about the role education should play in a revolutionary society. The document constitutes the basic guidelines for educational planning and policy-making in China. (Author/JR)

This paper reconsidered the effect of the utilitarians, James and John Stuart Mill, on English policy towards Indian educational institutions in the 1820s and 30s. (Editor/RK)

In his presidential address to the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, the writer, who is a research mathematician, discusses relationships between research mathematics and mathematics education. (SD)