Peter Roberts, John Freeman-Moir

Better Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Education, Art, and Utopia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at the heart of education, and addressing such questions demands attention not just to matters of theoretical principle but to the particulars of everyday life and experience. Taking utopia seriously in educational thought also involves a consideration of that which is dystopian. Utopia, this book suggests, is not something that is fixed, final, or ever fully realized; instead, it must be constantly recreated, and education, as an ongoing process of reflection, action, and transformation, has a central role to play in this process.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739166482
• Artikelnr.: 38227953

Autorenporträt

Peter Roberts is professor of Education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He teaches philosophy of education and educational policy studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Utopia
Dystopia
and Education Chapter 1: Crafting Experience: William Morris
John Dewey
and Utopia Chapter 2: Art for Dishonour
Utopian Inflection
Sympathy's Education Chapter 3: Utopia
Dystopia
and the Struggle for Redemption: Iris Murdoch and Educative Attention Chapter 4: Pictures and Particularities: The Uncertain Creativity of Action Chapter 5: Education and the Dream of a Better World: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire Chapter 6: A Golden Age? Dostoevsky
Taoism
and Utopia Chapter 7: Technology
Utopia
and Scholarly Life: Ideals and Realities in the Work of Hermann Hesse