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

• Autore: Carlson Dennis.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.1; 370.973; 370/.973
• Soggetto topico: Education - Philosophy; Progressive education - United States - Philosophy; Education - Aims and objectives - United States
• 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. Zarathustraâ€?s Education: Nietzsche and Postmodern Progressivism""; ""Chapter 5. A Cyborgâ€?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
• Titolo autorizzato: Leaving safe harbors
• ISBN: 1-136-77413-0; 0-429-23761-8; 0-203-82372-9; 1-283-84639-X; 1-136-77414-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825317403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II