Books | Articles | Miscellany
Books
Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education
University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Reviewed to date in New York Times, Perspectives on Politics, Ethics, Political Theory, Philosophy in Review, Theory and Research in Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Contemporary Sociology, Educational Policy, Times Educational Supplement.
Democracy at Risk: Toward a Political Science of Citizenship
Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
(This is the final report of the Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement of the American Political Science Association, of which I was a member between 2002 and 2005. The report has multiple authors. Stephen Macedo of Princeton University was the chair of the committee.)
Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
This volume stems from a conference on Okin, and contains articles by some of the top feminist and political philosophers working today. They are organized around a set of themes central to Okin’s work, namely liberal theory, gender and the family, feminist and cultural differences, and global justice. Included are major figures such as Joshua Cohen, David Miller, Cass Sunstein, Alison Jaggar, and Iris Marion Young, among others. Their aim is not to celebrate Okin’s work, but to constructively engage with it and further its goals.
Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Toward a Political Theory of Philanthropy,” forthcoming in Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar, eds., Oxford University Press, 2010.
“Educational Authority and Children’s Rights,” chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Harvey Siegel, ed. Oxford University Press, 2009.
“How and Why to Support Common Schooling and Educational Choice at the Same Time,” Journal of Philosophy of Education Vol. 41 (4) 2007: 709-725.
“On Regulating Homeschooling: A Reply to Glanzer,” Educational Theory, Vol. 58 (1) 2008: 17-23.
“Common Schooling and Educational Choice as a Response to Pluralism,” lead essay in School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski, eds. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008). [31 pages]
“When Adequate Isn’t: The Retreat From Equity in Educational Law and Policy and Why it Matters”, with William S. Koski, Emory Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2006).
“Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality” in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, William Damon and Susan Verducci, eds. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006)
“A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy is Partly to Blame,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2005: 24-33.
“Why Homeschooling Should Be Regulated” forthcoming in Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader, Bruce S. Cooper, ed. (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2005).
“Minors Within Minorities: A Problem for Liberal Multiculturalists” in Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights, and Diversity, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Avigail Eisenberg, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice” co-author with David Laitin, in Language Rights and Political Theory, Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Multicultural Accommodations in Education” in Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.
“Common Schooling and Educational Choice” an entry in A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Randall Curren, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
“Opting Out of Education: Yoder, Mozert, and the Autonomy of Children” Educational Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, Fall 2002.
“Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling” Political and Moral Education, NOMOS XLIII, Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2002.
“The Civic Perils of Homeschooling” Educational Leadership, April 2002. (Translated into Georgian, and appearing in the Georgian Journal of American Studies, 2005).
“Families and Schools as Compensating Agents in Moral Development for a Multicultural Society” with Susan Moller Okin, The Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1999.
“Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of Socrates” in Philosophy of Education: 1998, Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL.
“Revitalizing the Ecosystem for Youth: A New Perspective for School Reform” with Michael Timpane, Phi Delta Kappan., February 1997.
“The Paradoxes of Education in Rorty’s Liberal Utopia” in Philosophy of Education: 1996, Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL.
“Re-Examining the Team A – Team B Exercise” The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1989.
Miscellany
“The Liberal Reach: Teaching Humanities to the Poor” an essay with Debra Satz, Dissent, Winter 2004.
“A Brief Response to Papers by David Laitin and François Grin” in Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity, Philippe Van Parijs ed., Brussels: Deboeck Université, “Francqui Scientific Library”, 2004.
“The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom” a lecture delivered in 2003 at the Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, as part of its Award Winning Teachers on Teaching lecture series.
An entry on Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” in Teaching With Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach, Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner, eds., (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003).