Re-Imagining the Purposes of Education in Our Time
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
A Lecture by David Hansen
Professor and Director of the Philosophy and Education Program,
Teachers College, Columbia University
With Commentary by Ann Diller
Professor of Education and Director of Doctoral Studies,
University of New Hampshire
About Our Speakers…
David Hansen’s long-standing interest in the moral dimensions of teaching has prompted him to re-imagine the humanistic roots of education in an era that often reduces education into a mere means to an end. He has written widely on this larger theme, including The Call to Teach (1995) and Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher’s Creed (2001). He is also editor of John Dewey and Our Educational Prospect: A Critical Examination of Dewey’s Democracy and Education (2006).
Ann Diller holds the University of New Hampshire’s Lindberg Award for Outstanding Teacher-Scholar and is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society (PES). Her publications include The Gender Question in Education: Theory, Pedagogy and Politics and her PES Presidential Address "Facing the Torpedo Fish: Becoming a Philosopher of One's Own Education.” Her current research investigates the intersections between pressing issues in western education and perspectives to be gleaned from eastern traditions such as Buddhism.
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“Education must not be subservient to the demands of the state or its ideology.
Education must be lit by the inner glow of human dignity and happiness.”
- Daisaku Ikeda, BRC Founder, from Ethical Visions
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