The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson
In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito readsDewey's idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey's notion of growth,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-2462-3
- EAN: 9780823224623
- Produktnummer: 1482383
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 485 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 16
- Gewicht: 485
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Naoko Saito is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Education, University of Kyoto. She is the author of The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson.
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