The end of education : toward posthumanism / / William V. Spanos

• Autore: Spanos William V
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1993; ©1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages)
• Disciplina: 370.1120973
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - United States - Philosophy; Humanism; Education, Humanistic - United States - History - 20th century; Education, Higher - Curricula - United States - History - 20th century; Educational change - United States - History - 20th century; Educational anthropology - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-270) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Humanistic Understanding and the Onto-theo-logical Tradition: The Ideology of Vision; 2 Humanistic Inquiry and the Politics of the Gaze; 3 The Apollonian Investment of Modern Humanist Educational Theory: The Examples of Matthew Arnold, Irving Babbitt, and I. A. Richards; 4 The Violence of Disinterestedness: A Genealogy of the Educational ""Reform"" Initiative in the 1980's; 5 The University in the Vietnam Decade: The ""Crisis of Command"" and the ""Refusal of Spontaneous Consent""; The Intellectual and the Posthumanist Occasion: Toward a Decentered Paideia Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A contribution to the ongoing debates about the crisis of the humanities in education - which have exploded into the expansive contexts of ideology, cultural politics, "realpolitik", and humanism itself. Argues for and proposes a post-humanist theory of dialogic pedagogy.
• Titolo autorizzato: The end of education
• ISBN: 0-8166-8385-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809064303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pedagogy and cultural practice ; ; 1.