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



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Autore: Carlson Dennis. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Leaving safe harbors : toward a new progressivism in American education and public life / / Dennis Carlson Visualizza cluster
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. 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
Titolo autorizzato: Leaving safe harbors  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910779337603321
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