内尔·诺丁斯(Nel Noddings)，博士，美国斯坦福大学荣誉退休教授，美国教育哲学协会和约翰·杜威研究协会前任主席。她的主要著作包括：《关心：伦理和道德教育的女性观点》（1984）、《女性与罪恶》（1989）、《学会关心——教育的另一种模式》（1992）、《培养智慧的信仰和反叛》（1993）、《教育哲学》（1995）、《始于家庭：关怀与社会政策》（2002）、《培养道德的人：以关怀伦理替代人格教育》（2002），以及最新出版的《幸福与教育》（2003），等等。同时她也是170篇文章的作者。这些著作和文章的内容涉猎从关怀伦理到数学分析等广泛问题，在学术界受到高度关注，并具有国际影响。诺丁斯曾经在美国公立学校任职15年，先后从事教学、行政和课程开发工作。她曾经担任新泽西州中学数学教研部主任、芝加哥大学杜威实验学校和斯坦福大学教育学院院长。在斯坦福大...(展开全部)

Critical Lessons concentrates on the critical, reflective thinking that should be taught in high schools. Taking seriously the Socratic advice, 'know thyself', it focuses on topics that will help students to understand the forces - good and bad - that work to socialize them. This 2006 book argues why critical thinking is necessary in schools because it requires the discussion o...(展开全部)

Description A thoughtful, deeply honest look at the transforming experience of parenthood and how our children can lead us to a more profound understnading of ourselves. 'Live with children long enough and beauty, love, innocence, play, pain, and death, everything appears in a new light...' Children: they have the ability to turn our lives upside down, to disrupt our plans and ...(展开全部)

Fresh on the heals of the successful What Dogs Teach Us, author Glenn Dromgoole offers the similarly insightful What Cats Teach Us. Cats, better known for their reprimanding attitudes towards humans, still have much to teach. From keeping fastidious grooming habits, eating a healthy fish diet and getting plenty of rest to nurturing your independent spirit, expressing your indiv...(展开全部)

罗伯托·曼戈贝拉·昂格尔，Reberto Mangabeira Unger，1947— ，巴西社会理论家、法学家、政治家，美国批判法学运动灵魂人物，29 岁成为哈佛大学法学院最年轻的终身教授，著述等身，横跨法学、社会学、哲学、政治学、经济学乃至理论物理学等领域，被誉为 “第三世界走出的哲学天才”“永不疲倦的远见卓识者”，在法学研究中倡导通过法律变革推动社会改革，并身体力行，于 2007 年、2015 年两度出任巴西政府战略事务部部长，在教育、就业与劳动保障等领域制定改革路线，致力于建设更加公平的国民收入分配体制，深度参与人民币国际化、金砖五国银行设立等对华合作事务。

In The Global Achievement Gap , education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands of the global knowledge economy. With insights gained from visits to classrooms in leading suburban schools, he analyzes performance by considering the skills needed to get a good job and become a productive citizen. Highlighting discussions with young...(展开全部)

托尼·瓦格纳（Tony Wagner） 生于1946年，哈佛大学教育学博士，哈佛大学教育改革领导小组计划负责人，《教育周刊》撰稿人。曾任高校教师和校长、比尔与梅琳达·盖茨基金会高级顾问、全美教育人员社会责任组织创办人。已出版《改变领导力》《通向成功之路》《学校应如何改变》等著作。

Nearly everyone sw ears—whether it’s over a few too many drinks, in reaction to a stubbed toe, or in flagrante delicto. And yet, we sit idly by as words are banned from television and censored in books. We insist that people excise profanity from their vocabularies and we punish children for yelling the very same dirty words that we’ll mutter in relief seconds after they fall a...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)