The Gleam of Light : Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson Hardback
by Naoko Saito
Part of the American Philosophy series
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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, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology. The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.
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- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/2005
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- ISBN:9780823224623
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Fordham University Press
- Publication Date:28/07/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780823224623
