Better worlds : education, art, and utopia

Better worlds : education, art, and utopia /

"This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as a model of social perfection but as an active, ongoing, imaginative educational proces...

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Main Authors: Roberts, Peter, 1963- (Author), Freeman-Moir, D. John (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
Series:Critical education policies and practices
Subjects:
Education > Philosophy.
Critical pedagogy.
Education in literature.
Utopias in literature.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, and Education
  • 1. Crafting Experience: William Morris, John Dewey, and Utopia
  • 2. Art for Dishonour, Utopian Inflection, Sympathy's Education
  • 3. Utopia, Dystopia, and the Struggle for Redemption: Iris Murdoch and Educative Attention
  • 4. Pictures and Particularities: The Uncertain Creativity of Action
  • 5. Education and the Dream of a Better World: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire
  • 6. A Golden Age? Dostoevsky, Taoism, and Utopia
  • 7. Technology, Utopia, and Scholarly Life: Ideals and Realities in the Work of Hermann Hesse.

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