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Author Bowers, C. A.

Title Critical essays on education, modernity, and the recovery of the ecological imperative / C.A. Bowers
Published New York : Teachers College Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description x, 221 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Cultural literacy in developed countries -- Curriculum as cultural reproduction -- Linguistic roots of cultural invasion in Paulo Freire's pedagogy -- The dialectic of nihilism and the state -- Teaching a nineteenth-century pattern of thinking through a twentieth-century machine -- How computers contribute to the ecological crisis -- Ideology, educational computing, and the moral poverty of the information age -- A Batesonian perspective on education and the bonds of language
Implications of Gregory Bateson's ideas for a semiotic of art education -- The anthropocentric foundations of educational liberalism -- Contingency, irony, and the ecological crisis -- Cultural diversity and the ecological crisis -- Toward a deep cultural approach to environmental education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index
Subject Computers -- Social aspects.
Deep ecology.
Education -- Philosophy.
Education -- Social aspects.
Educational anthropology.
Multicultural education.
LC no. 93018527
ISBN 0807732443 (paperback)
0807732451