Leaving Safe Harbors : Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life

ISBN-13: 9780415933773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 232 str.

Dennis Carlson

Opis

To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressivism 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. The author uses Platonic, Hegelian, Nietzschean, and Heideggerian mythologies to elaborate a progressive model that provides powerful ways of thinking democratic education and public life.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Dennis Carlson is Senior Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio