Leaving safe harbors

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

by Carlson, Dennis

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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 perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through popular culture for mythologies that might guide such a progressivism. Carlson uses Platonic, Hegelian, Nitzschean, and Heideggerian ""mythologies"" t…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Leaving safe harbors : toward a new progressivism in American education and public life / Dennis Carlson.

Summary

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2002.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):RoutledgeFalmer
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2002.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 218 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0429237618, 9780429237614, 0203823729, 9780203823729, 1136774149, 9781136774140
  • oclc:ocn823726740
  • LC Classification:LB14.7
  • Dewey Decimal:370/.973

Table of Contents

""Front Cover ""; ""Leaving Safe Harbors""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1. Introduction ""; ""Chapter 2. Lighting Up the Cave: Progressivism and the Ghost of Plato ""; ""Chapter 3. Recognizing Ourselves: Hegel and the Master/Slave Struggle in Education ""; ""Chapter 4. Zarathustra�s Education: Nietzsche and Postmodern Progressivism""; ""Chapter 5. A Cyborg�s Education: Heidegger and Eco-Progressivism ""; ""Chapter 6. Leaving Safe Harbors ""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

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Subjects

Education -- Aims and objectives Education -- Aims and objectives -- Uni… Éducation -- Philosophie Education -- Philosophy Éducation progressive -- Philosophie. -… Progressive education -- Philosophy Progressive education -- Philosophy. --… United States

Writers

Carlson, Dennis

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