New Social Foundations for Education

Philip Wexler is Professor of Sociology of Education and Unterberg Chair (Emeritus) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. From 2011 to 2013, he was the visiting Bronfman Professor at Brandeis University. He is currently Visiting Professor in Education and Social Sciences at The Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany. He is the author of a number of books, including Social Theory in Education (Peter Lang, 2008).Yotam Hotam is Assistant Professor at the University of Haifa where he is also the head of the MA Program for the Study of Alternatives in Education. His publications include Modern Gnosis and Zionism: The Crisis of Culture, Life Philosophy and National Jewish Thought (2013) and Space Theodyssey: Science Fiction, Religiosity and Education in a Post-secular Age (2011).

• Contents: Philip Wexler/Yotam Hotam: New Social Foundations: Education in Post Secular Society – Jürgen Habermas: Notes on Post-Secular Society – Hanan A. Alexander: Education and the Post-Secular Condition: Resanctifying Pedagogy in an Era of Disenchantment – William F. Pinar: On the Teachings of George Grant – Robert A. Davis: Religion, Education and the Post-Secular Child – Yotam Hotam: Pedagogy, Spirituality, and Curricular Design in Waldorf Education – Oren Ergas: The Post-Secular Rhetoric of Contemplative Practice in the Public Curriculum – Suzanne Schneider: Demarcating the Secular: Education Policy in Mandate Palestine – Ayman K. Agbaria/Muhanad Mustafa: Palestinian Secular and Muslim Organizations’ Educational Activism in Israel: Without, Within and Against – Nehemia Stern: Post-Secular Ethnography: Religious Experience and Political Individualism among Neo-Hasidic Religious Zionists in Israel and the West Bank.