Education has always been part of the search for the ideal society and, therefore, an important part of the utopian tradition in Western culture, politics and literature. Education has often served to define the ideal society or to provide the principal means of creating it. This unique collection of essays by well known scholars from around the world examines the role of edutopias in the utopian tradition, examining its sources and sites as a means for understanding the aims and purposes of education, for realizing its societal value, and for criticizing its present economic, technological...

What does poststructuralism mean for authors such as Foucault, Lyotard, Cixous, Derrida, and Haraway, to name a few, and what significance does it have for educational inquiry? This book takes on these central questions and explores the impact of postructuralism in language that makes the basic issues at stake accessible for a broad readership. Michael A. Peters and Nicholas C. Burbules highlight the implications of a postructuralist stance for the conception of the research subject and examine its standards of validity and methods of investigation.

Dieses Buch ist den deutschen Studenten der Psychologie, Medizin, Psychiatrie, Biologie und Zoologie gewidmet, denen bislang der hier dargestellte lnhalt nur tiber die russische und englische Sprache zuganglich war. Teill des Buches beschreibt die Grundlagen der Reflexlehre. Teil 2 des Buches stellt die Bedeutung dieser Lehre fUr wichtige physiologische Prozesse und Krankheiten dar. Die Autoren haben sich bemtiht, das Fachgebiet umfassend aber nicht erschopfend darzustellen, und aul3erdem versucht, mit modernen didaktischen Hilfsmitteln, sowohl inhaltlich als auch typographisch, dem Leser den...