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

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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Autor principal: Carlson, Dennis (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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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:x, 218 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 201-210) e índice.
ISBN:9780203823729
9781136774140