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Each page in StudyPlace has two sides, controlled by the tabs above, the front article side — the current state of the presentation about the topic of the page — and behind it, the study side — to indicate and talk about leading questions and the best resources we know about for thinking about the topic. Article indicates the fruits of our common inquiry; study serves to guide the process of the inquiry.

StudyPlace is conceptual, not encyclopedic. We engage in concept formation about what educates. We organize our conceptual work through 8 general headings, which function both as categories (alphabetical lists of pages), and as pathways (more thematic than alphabetical listings). Here is the general sense of the headings, which are not exclusive of each other.

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Concepts — fairly specific ideas of use in thinking about what educates. Some pivotal concepts, like common knowledge, form projects for systematic development.
Subjects — disciplined forms of inquiry that generate the current state of knowledge about education and pedagogy.
People — individuals whose accomplishments make them significant as educators, people whose work has added to what educates.
Essays — essays by current or historical writers that illuminate what educates.
Reviews — evaluating the educative power of books, movies, plays, and exhibitions.
Commons — topics encouraging contributors to reflect on the StudyPlace project itself.
Courses — materials supporting courses in which the participants make use of StudyPlace.
Help — how to do what you want to do.

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Being human educates . . . .
Chess educates . . . .
Common knowledge educates . . . .
Conversation educates . . . .
Domestic life educates . . . .
Experience educates . . . .
Music educates . . . .
Place educates . . . .
Running educates . . .
Schools of Education educate . . . .
Siblings educate . . . .
Social Isolation educates . . . .
Sport educates . . . .
Study educates . . . .
Terminology educates . . . .
Travel educates . . . .
What is to education as disease is to medicine?
Should the end of educative efforts be social or individual?
Should the academic study of education, or analysis of the question What educates?, ground itself in a commitment to social progress and reform? Or is the rigorous pursuit of truth a more important priority?
How should educators be educated?
What are the ways in which educational practices lead to injustices in human experience?
Is there a sense for considering the work of revealing the "social facts and laws upon which educational theory and practice...rest" not simply the work of the sociologist of education but also a task for the sociologist of knowledge that concerns himself with education?
What are the distinctive characteristics of scholarship, research, and criticism and are these balanced appropriately in the contemporary academic world?
Does the abandonment of a foundationalist epistemology require one to take up extreme, action-oriented epistemological alternatives like relativism, standpoint theory, or instrumentalism?
Have public schools merely reproduced socio-economic order?
On Authorship: The challenges of using spaces such as StudyPlace in an academic world.

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Concepts

Age educates . . . .
Art educates . . . .
Bildung educates . . . .
Books educate . . . .
Caring educates . . . .
Challenges educate . . . .
Communicating educates . . . .
Concepts educate . . . .
Contemplation educates . . . .
Criticizing educates . . . .
Death educates . . . .
Deliberation educates . . . .
Ethos educates . . . .
Games educate . . . .
Hoping educates . . . .
Identity educates . . . .
Ideology educates . . . .
Justice educates . . . .
Knowing educates . . . .
Loving educates . . . .
Movement educates . . . .
Pain educates . . . .
Parents educate . . . .
Pictures educate . . . .
Schools educate . . . .
Software educates . . . .
Teachers educate . . . .
Technology educates . . . .
Time educates . . . .
Walking educates . . . .
Wonder educates . . . .
Work educates . . . .

Questions

HAQs Hotly argued questions (hacks)
- Is nature or nurture more significant in determining educational achievement?
- What social or political forces are pedagogically strongest?
FAQs Frequently asked questions (facts)
- How can parents best guarantee the success of their children in schools and in life?
LUQs Largely unanswered questions (lucks)
- How should goals of equity and excellence be reconciled in programs of formal instruction?
- At what age does a child become a young person?
PIQs Profoundly important questions (picks)
- Is death a concept with apolitical, existential pedagogical strength?
- How has the empirical operation of the concept of education changed over time?

Explaining

On the organization of pedagogical knowledge

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Lectures

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Wiki-ed

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Reflecting

Cresap. "Is Pragmatism Useless?"
Eckardt, "The Study of Politics and Education"
Emerson, "Self-reliance"
Epictetus, "Discourses" and "The encheiridion"
Fielding, "An essay on conversation"
Higgins, "Notes_on_the_critical-interpretive_essay"
McClintock (Robbie), "Towards a place for Study in a world of instruction"
McClintock (Robbie), peers — [[On_(Not)_Defining_Education
McClintock (Maxine), "Habits of mind"
Montaigne, "Of pedantry"
Seneca, "On liberal and vocational studies"
Tietje, "Experience and Purpose"

Reviewing

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In the Journals

Anthony Grafton on the history of ideas
McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Brashears, M. on social isolation

All books

Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals
APA Publication Manual of APA
James Banks Multicultural Education: Issues…
Isabel Beck Bringing Words to Life
Derrick Bell Faces at the Bottom of the Well
Alan Blankstein Failure is Not an Option
Hans Blumenberg Work on Myth
Augusto Boal Theatre of the Oppressed
Lee Bolman Reframing Organizations
Ernest Boyer The Basic School
Annette L. Breaux 101 "Answers" for New Teachers & Their Mentors
Tammy Bruce The New Thought Police
James Campbell Middle Passages: African-American Journeys to Africa
Ronald Cervero Power in Practice
Jeanne Chall The Academic Achievement Challenge
Beverly Daniel Tatum Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together
Antonia Darder The Critical Pedagogy Reader
Linda Darling-Hammond The Right to Learn
Joan DelFattore What Johnny Shouldn't Read
Louise Derman-Sparks Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism
John Dewey Experience and Education
Frederick Douglass Narrative of the Life & Times of Frederick Douglass
T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral
Rafe Esquith There Are No Shortcuts
Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth
Patrick Leigh Fermor A time of Gifts and
Patrick Leigh Fermor Between the Woods and the Water
Michel Foucault Discipline & Punish
Maxine Greene The Dialectic of Freedom
Martin Gross The Conspiracy of Ignorance
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht In Praise of Athletic Beauty
Vivian Gussin Paley White Teacher
Pierre Hadot The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
Constance Hale Sin and Syntax
Janice Hale-Benson Black Children
M.N. Hedge A Coursebook on Scientific and Professional Writing
Carl Hiaasen Hoot
Homer Hickam Rocket Boys
E.D. Hirsch The Knowledge Deficit
bell hooks Teaching to Transgress
Gary Howard We Can't Teach What We Don't Know
Samuel Huntington Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity
Cynthia Kadohata Kira-Kira
Carl Kaestle Pillars of the Republic
Charles Kimball When Religion Becomes Evil
James Kouzes The Leadership Challenge
Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities
Jawanza Kunjufu Black Students/Middle Class Teachers
Crystal Kuykendall From Rage to Hope
Gloria Ladson-Billings The Dreamkeepers
Enid Lee Beyond Heroes and Holidays
Donaldo Macedo Literacies of Power
James MacGregor Burns Transforming Leadership
Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom
Deborah Meier Many Children Left Behind
Gregory Michie Holler if You Hear Me
Robert Muff Promoting Health in Multicultural Populations
Charles Murray In Our Hands
Robert Musil The Man without Qualities
Alexander Neill Summerhill School
Wesley Null Forgotten Heroes of American Education
Parker Palmer The Courage to Teach
Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City
Ruby Payne A Framework for Understanding Poverty
Plato The Republic
Michael Porter Kill Them Before They Grow
Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
Alissa Quart Hothouse Kids
Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel
Lynne Rae Perkins Criss Cross
Diane Ravitch The Language Police
Douglas Reeves Making Standards Work
Tim Riordan Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning
Richard Rodriguez Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father
Mike Rose Lives on the Boundary
Richard Rothstein Class and Schools
Arthur Schlesinger The Disuniting of America
Eric Schlosser Fast Food Nation
Christina Sommers The War Against Boys
Thomas Sowell Inside American Education
Larry Spears Insights on Leadership
Shelby Steele White Guilt
Sandra Stotsky Losing our Language
Maureen Stout The Feel-Good Curriculum
Cass R. Sunsetin Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Charles Sykes Dumbing Down Our Kids
Abigail Thernstrom No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning
Gail Thompson Through Ebony Eyes
David Tyack Tinkering Toward Utopia
Guadalupe Valdes Con Respeto
Angela Valenzuela Substractive Schooling
Donald Phillip Verene The Art of Humane Education
Harry Wong The First Days of School
Gordon Wood Revolutionary Characters
Peter Wood Diversity: The Invention of a Concept

New books

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. In Praise of Athletic Beauty
Pierre Hadot. The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature
Orhan Pamuk. Istanbul: Memories and the City
Richard Sorabji. Self: Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death
Cass R. Sunsetin. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

Old books

Plato. The Republic
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel

Kid's books

Big books

Hans Blumenberg. Work on Myth
Robert Musil. The Man without Qualities

Distant books

Frédéric Martel. De la culture en Amérique

Renewed books

Patrick Leigh Fermor. A time of Gifts and
Patrick Leigh Fermor. Between the Woods and the Water

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Movies

84 Charing Cross Road
400 Blows
Amarcord
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Babel
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
The Bicycle Thief
Blackboard Jungle
The Boys of Baraka
Butterfly
Cinema Paradiso
Ciao, Professore!
Freedom Writers
The History Boys
Jesus Camp
Murmur of the Heart
Paradise Now
Thelma & Louise
The Shawshank Redemption
To Sir, with Love
Walk on Water
Sling Blade

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Music

Lesson Learned -- written by Ray LaMontagne

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Places

The City as educator.
- Orhan Pamuk. Istanbul: Memories and the City. Maureen Freely, trans., (New York: Vintage Books, 2004).
- Hong Kong educates . . .
- London educates
- New York educates . . .
- Paris educates . . .

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Symposia

Tough Questions on Tough Choices
- New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.
  Tough Choices or Tough Times San Francisco: National Center on Education and the Economy, 2007). Get the staff papers, commissioned papers, and America's Choice: high skills or low wages!, the 1990 predecessor report.

ACLS cyberinfrastructure commentary
- ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
  Our Cultural Commonwealth (New York: American Council of Learned Societies, 2006).

Hansen on Cosmopolitan Education.
- David Hansen's lecture at Teachers College on February 6.
  The Idea of a Cosmopolitan Education.

How should colleges be ranked?
- See coverage at Education Sector.

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Human extensions

Printing educates . . .
Mechanization educates
Design educates . . .
Information educates . . .
Terminologies educate . . .

Events

The Commons

Courses

Teachers College

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