On becoming edGe-ucated: how uncertainty can link the frontiers of expert inquiry to the education of all

Abstract

This book presents a novel and refreshing view of education showing how students, at all ages, can gainfully be taken directly to the constantly advancing frontiers of knowledge. The journey presents a profound and critical view of import - ant aspects of educational research and graduate training that brings to life the bond between education and research. The excitement found in this book includes how edGe-ucating often occurs within the chal - lenges of classroom teaching (and beyond) and how to bring research into educational setting. Passion arises about the new opportunities that could emerge for individuals, cultures, societies, and fields of inquiry if all citizens were working at the frontiers of expert unknowns--with or without schooling. G Thomas Fox is a professor emeritus from National Louis University, Chicago, Illinois. In his 55 years as an educator, he researched educational policy and practice at national and local levels, including at primary school through university doctoral settings; and for nearly three decades he has guided teachers and adult educators in researching their own professional settings.