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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Prologue; 1 Schools Without Faith; PART TWO Transcendental Pragmatism in Educational Research; 2 A View from Somewhere; 3 Aesthetic Inquiry in Education; 4 Traditions of Inquiry in Education; PART THREE Pedagogy of Difference and the Other Face of Liberalism; 5 Education in Ideology; 6 Literacy and the Education of Citizens; 7 What Is Common About Common Schooling?; PART FOUR Intelligent Spirituality in the Curriculum; 8 Human Agency and the Curriculum; 9 Moral Education and Liberal Democracy. |
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10 Religious Initiation in Liberal DemocracyPART FIVE Epilogue; 11 To the Truth, Roughly Speaking; 12 Spirituality, Morality, and Criticism in Education; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This challenging and provocative book reimagines the justification, substance, process, and study of education in open, pluralistic, liberal democratic societies. Hanan Alexander argues that educators need to enable students to embark on a quest for intelligent spirituality, while paying heed to a pedagogy of difference. Through close analysis of the work of such thinkers as William James, Charles Taylor, Elliot Eisner, Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Martin Buber, Michael Apple and Terrence McLaughlin, Reimagining Liberal Education offers an account of school curriculum and moral and relig. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Democracy and education.
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Democracy and education. |
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Education, Humanistic.
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Education, Humanistic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alexander, Hanan. Reimagining Liberal Education : Affiliation and Inquiry in Democratic Schooling. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2015 9781441122438 |
| ISBN |
9781441183446 (electronic book) |
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1441183442 (electronic book) |
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9781441122438 |
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