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    Leo Strauss, Education, and Political Thought (edited book)
    with Shadia B. Drury, Jon Fennell, Heinrich Meier, Neil G. Robertson, Timothy L. Simpson, J. G. York, Catherine H. Zuckert, and Michael Zuckert
    Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2011.
    This collection by some of the leading scholars of Strauss's work is the first devoted to Strauss's thought regarding education. It seeks to address his conception of education as it applies to a range of his most important concepts, such as his views on the importance of revelation, his critique of modern democracy and the importance of modern classical education
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    Education
    with Nicholas C. Burbules, Bryan Warnick, and Scott Johnston
    In Armen T. Marsoobian & John Ryder (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to American Philosophy, Blackwell. 2004.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Overview Ralph Waldo Emerson John Dewey Richard Rorty Martha Nussbaum Conclusion.
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    The Hypothesis of Incommensurability and Multicultural Education
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 43 (2): 203-221. 2009.
    This article describes the logical and rhetorical grounds for a multicultural pedagogy that teaches students the knowledge and skills needed to interact creatively in the public realm betwixt and between cultures. I begin by discussing the notion of incommensurability. I contend that this hypothesis was intended to perform a particular rhetorical task and that the assumption that it is descriptive of a condition to which intercultural interactions are necessarily subjected is an unwarranted exte…Read more
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    The hypothesis of incommensurability and multicultural education
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 43 (2): 203-221. 2009.
    This article describes the logical and rhetorical grounds for a multicultural pedagogy that teaches students the knowledge and skills needed to interact creatively in the public realm betwixt and between cultures. I begin by discussing the notion of incommensurability. I contend that this hypothesis was intended to perform a particular rhetorical task and that the assumption that it is descriptive of a condition to which intercultural interactions are necessarily subjected is an unwarranted exte…Read more
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    Initiation, not Indoctrination: Confronting the grotesque in cultural education
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 43 (7): 706-723. 2011.
    The goal of this article is to differentiate initiation from indoctrination, and to return a positive significance to the notion of initiation, as a pedagogy that contributes not only to the perpetuation of a particular form of life or community, but that provides the next generation with means to advance that knowledge beyond its existing boundaries. When we conflate the terms ‘initiation’ and ‘indoctrination’ or only mark a minor difference between the two, we lose meaning. The explanatory and…Read more