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The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

By Stanley Cavell , Naoko Saito

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0823224627, 9780823224623
LCC
B945.D44 S23 2005
Open Library ID
OL22631891M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1159962 bytes)
Series
American Philosophy
Edition
3
Pages
228\227
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures 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 human condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito reads Dewey’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.

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