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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971756903321

Autore

Carlson Dennis

Titolo

Leaving safe harbors : toward a new progressivism in American education and public life / / Dennis Carlson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002

ISBN

1-136-77413-0

0-429-23761-8

0-203-82372-9

1-283-84639-X

1-136-77414-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

370.1

370.973

370/.973

Soggetti

Education - Philosophy

Progressive education - United States - Philosophy

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Cover ""; ""Leaving Safe Harbors""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction ""; ""Chapter 2. Lighting Up the Cave: Progressivism and the Ghost of Plato ""; ""Chapter 3. Recognizing Ourselves: Hegel and the Master/Slave Struggle in Education ""; ""Chapter 4. Zarathustra�s Education: Nietzsche and Postmodern Progressivism""; ""Chapter 5. A Cyborg�s Education: Heidegger and Eco-Progressivism ""; ""Chapter 6. Leaving Safe Harbors ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through popular culture for mythologies that might guide such a



progressivism. Carlson uses Platonic, Hegelian, Nitzschean, and Heideggerian ""mythologies"" to elaborate a progressive model that provides powerful ways of ""thinking"" democratic education and