| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 215 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, global conflict and peace education |
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SUNY series, global conflict and peace education.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Betty Reardon -- Preface -- Introduction: Problem and Crisis -- Reform and Schooling -- Nuclearization -- Ideology -- Towards Social Justice -- Educational Praxis -- Part I: The Scientific And The Transformational -- Democracy -- Pragmatism -- Individualism -- Democracy and Education -- Scientific -- Ideological Critique or Educative Method -- Social Justice -- Part II: The Natural and the Historical -- Nature and the Natural -- The Functional -- Development -- Progressivism -- History -- Part III: The Personal and the Political -- Experience |
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Praxis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W |
| Summary |
This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism--science, nature, democracy, experience--Paringer argues for a critical or radical education praxis that more sensitively comes to grips with the difficulties of teh nuclearized, postmodern world |
| Analysis |
Humaniora Pædagogik |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-215) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dewey, John, 1859-1952
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| SUBJECT |
Dewey, John, 1859-1952 fast |
| Subject |
Education -- Philosophy.
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EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
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Education -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585055351 |
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9780585055350 |
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9780791402542 |
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0791402541 |
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1438415508 |
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9781438415505 |
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