Ethical Visions of Education
Philosophies in Practice

Developed by the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century (now the Ikeda Center)
Published by Teachers College Press, 2007
Edited by David T. Hanson

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Daisaku Ikeda

Preface
Virginia Benson

Introduction: Ideas, Action, and Ethical Vision in Education
by David T. Hansen

Part I
Foundational Perspectives on the Aims of Education

Chapter 1:   John Dewey on Education and the Quality of Life
David T. Hansen

Chapter 2:   Paulo Freire's Politics and Pedagogy
Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy

Chapter 3:   W. E. B. Du Bois and an Education for Democracy and Creativity
Rodino Anderson

Part II
Political Pressures, Educational Responses

Chapter 4:   Value Creation as the Aim of Education: Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Soka Education
Andrew Gebert and Monte Joffee

Chapter 5:   Learning from Experience: Jane Addams's Education in Democracy as a Way of Life
Charlene Haddock Seigfried

Chapter 6:   Tao Xingzhi and the Emergence of Public Education in China
Zhang Kaiyuan and Wang Weijia

Part III
Unleashing Human Growth and Potential

Chapter 7:   Peace as a Premise for Learning: Maria Montessori's Educational Philosophy
Jacqueline Cossentino and Jennifer Whitcomb

Chapter 8:   Art, Nature, and Education: Rabindranath Tagore's Holistic Approach to Learning
Kathleen M. O'Connell

Chapter 9:   Artful Curriculum, Evaluation, and Instruction: Lessons Learned from Rudolf Steiner's Spiritually Based Waldorf Education
Bruce Uhrmacher

Chapter 10:   Caring for Others as a Path to Teaching and Learning: Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life
A. G. Rud

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