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Inventing the Modern Self and John Dewey: Modernities and the Traveling of Pragmatism in Education

By Thomas S. Popkewitz

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
1403968624, 9781403968623, 9781403978417
LCC
LB875.D5 I59 2005
Open Library ID
OL3425329M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1222016 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
320\321
Topic
Education
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Pragmatism provoked both admiration and fear, as global changes brought into the twentieth century provoked a revisioning of the cultural narratives about who the citizen and child are and should be. In a new book edited by Thomas S. Popkewitz, scholars representing twelve nations provide original chapters to explore the epistemic features and cultural theses figured in Dewey's writings as they assembled in the discourses of public schooling. The significance of Dewey in the book is not about Dewey as the messenger of pragmatism, but in locating different cultural, political, and educational terrains in which debates about modernity, the modern self, and the making of the citizen occurred.

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