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This book encourages readers to acknowledge humanity¿s contribution to the environmental crisis, proposing a way forward by exploring the power of ordinary people to bring about cultural change. It will appeal to students and teachers as well as general readers interested in environmental studies, philosophy, and education.

At what price entry? Philosopher of education Jane Roland Martin contends that feminist scholars have traded in their idealism for a place in the academy. In Coming of Age in Academe, she looks at the ways that academic feminists have become estranged from women. Determining that this is the "membership fee" the academy exacts on all its members, she calls for the academy's transformation. Part one explores the chilly research climate for femi...

Progressive education in the United States peaked in the 1930s and O40s, and Elisabeth Irwin's Little Red School House in New York City was iconic in that movement. For the first time, stories and recollections from students who attended Little Red during this era are collected in this volume.

Jane Roland Martin is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of Reclaiming a Conversation, The Schoolhome, and Education Reconfigured.

Martin¿s "theory of education as encounter" places culture alongside the individual at the heart of the educational process, thus responding to the call John Dewey made over a century ago for an enlarged outlook on education.

Drawing selectively from reform movements of the past and relating them to the unique needs of today's parents and children, Jane Martin presents a philosophy of education that is responsive to America's changed and changing realities. As more and more parents enter the workforce, the historic role of the domestic sphere in the education and development of children is drastically reduced. Consequently, Martin advocates removing the barriers be...

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In this engaging and accessible volume, Jane Roland Martin develops a brilliantly innovative approach to education that illuminates one of the most pressing issues of our day--the passing down of "cultural liabilities, " such as "violence in the home, school, and world at large and "hatred

An exploration of the plight of feminist scholars in the academy. Focuses on the notion that feminists have traded their idealism and concerns about their lived experiences for a place in the academy.

A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, Martin examines Malcolm X, Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor of Aveyron and others to demonstrate how education is a fundamental determinant of the human condition.

A preeminent philosopher of education in the United States, Jane Roland Martin challenges conventional wisdom that education consists of small, incremental changes. Using case studies of personal transformations, or metamorphoses, Martin examines Malcolm X, Shaw's Eliza Doolittle, Victor of Aveyron and others to demonstrate how education is a fundamental determinant of the human condition.

Martin's 'theory of education as encounter' places culture alongside the individual at the heart of the educational process, thus responding to the call John Dewey made over a century ago for an enlarged outlook on education.