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

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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 persp...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carlson, Dennis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Temas:
Education > Philosophy.
Progressive education > United States > Philosophy.
Education > Aims and objectives > United States.
Éducation > Philosophie.
Éducation progressive > États-Unis > Philosophie.
EDUCATION > Essays.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
EDUCATION > Reference.
Education > Aims and objectives
Education > Philosophy
Progressive education > Philosophy
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 218 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-210) and index.
ISBN:9780203823729
0203823729
9781136774140
1136774149
0429237618
9780429237614
1136774130
9781136774133

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