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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787483303321

Autore

Benne Kenneth Dean <1908->

Titolo

Education for tragedy : essays in disenchanted hope for modern man / / Kenneth D. Benne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, [Kentucky] : , : University of Kentucky Press, , 1967

©1967

ISBN

0-8131-6208-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Disciplina

370.19/3

Soggetti

Educational anthropology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 197-202)

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Education for Tragedy; Education in the Quest for Identity; Education in the Quest for Community; The Uses of Fraternity; Man and Moloch; The Re-education of Persons in Their Human Relationships; From Polarization to Paradox; The Arts of Democratic Citizenship; Notes; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

<P>A distinguished educator and social critic here considers the demands put upon democratic and progressive policies in education, which remains, he believes, man's strongest hope for creating new bases for human values in an age of change and cultural crisis. The importance of human worth and individual advancement, within communities and varied age demographics, is analyzed.</P>