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

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Publication Date:2012.

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Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (x, 218 pages)

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ISBN:9780203823729, 0203823729, 9781136774140, 1136774149
oclc:on1004064257
LC Classification:LB14.7
Dewey Decimal:370.1

Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Lighting up the cave : progressivism and the ghost of Plato -- ch. 3. Recognizing ourselves : Hegel and the master/slave struggle in education -- ch. 4. Zarathustra's education : Nietzsche and postmodern progressivism -- ch. 5. A cyborg's education : Heidegger and eco-progressivism -- ch. 6. Leaving safe harbors.

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