Prologue: Renewing the conversation / David Coulter & John R. Wiens
Joining the conversation
Education and schooling : a relationship that can never be taken for granted / Ken Osborne
Education and democracy : the United States of America as a historical case study / Diane Ravitch
Education for a flourishing life / Harry Brighouse
Creating common and uncommon worlds
American democracy, education, and utopianism / Eamonn Callan
Education for global citizenship / Kwarme Anthony Appiah
L'affaire du foulard (The scarf affair) / Seyla Benhabib
Deliberative democracy and civic education / Lars Løvlie
Horizons of significance
Culture and education / Sonia Nieto
Democratic citizenship and the narrative imagination / Martha C. Nussbaum
Teaching natural science in the twenty-first century : opportunities and dangers / Ian Winchester
The role of mathematics in education and democracy / Deborah Loewenberg Ball & Hyman Bass
Spirituality and religion in public schooling / Nel Noddings
Education and economic development / Randall Nielsen & Janice Kingborn
Giving the body its due : autobiographical reflections and utopian imaginings / Joannie Halas & Jeanne Adele Kentel
Indigenous knowledge systems and education / Ray Barnhardt & Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
Educating at the interface of biosphere and bitsphere / Ursula M. Franklin
Imagining and becoming : education as lifelong and lifewide
Education and childhood / Joseph Dunne
Educating adolescents / Kieran Egan
Some educational implications of adulthood / Gary D. Fenstermacher
Epilogue: Democratic eruptions / John R. Wiens & David Coulter.