Lyotard: Just EducationPradeep Dhillon, Paul Standish Following Lyotard's death in 1998, this book provides an exploration of the recurrent theme of education in his work. It brings to a wider audience the significance of a body of thought about education that is subtle, profound and still largely unexplored. This book also makes an important contribution to contemporary debates on postmoderism and education. |
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... Society of Great Britain. He writes on topics in critical theory and poststructuralism, with a particular interest in higher education, identity and pluralism, electronic media in education, and connections between education and ...
... Society of Great Britain. He writes on topics in critical theory and poststructuralism, with a particular interest in higher education, identity and pluralism, electronic media in education, and connections between education and ...
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... societies to ones that are rule-governed, systematic, and indeed modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The ...
... societies to ones that are rule-governed, systematic, and indeed modern, Lyotard strives to show us the ways in which the modern social systems we inhabit have mutated, and their demands for prescriptive performance intensified. The ...
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... societies. While modern ways of knowing are legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of the working subject, of humanity as the hero of liberty, of the creation of ...
... societies. While modern ways of knowing are legitimated with reference to a grand narrative of some kind – of the dialectics of Spirit, of the emancipation of the working subject, of humanity as the hero of liberty, of the creation of ...
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... very great exaggeration of the threat that educators find themselves under in some western liberal societies today (ibid.: 62–4). The force of the case that Lyotard presents here shows 4 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
... very great exaggeration of the threat that educators find themselves under in some western liberal societies today (ibid.: 62–4). The force of the case that Lyotard presents here shows 4 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
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... society, especially in a prevailing climate of performativity. Such matters need to be addressed if we are to become clear about the rights, duties, privileges, and obligations of education, about the relation between research and ...
... society, especially in a prevailing climate of performativity. Such matters need to be addressed if we are to become clear about the rights, duties, privileges, and obligations of education, about the relation between research and ...
Contents
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JeanFrançois Lyotard and cultural difference | 23 |
the differend language games and education | 36 |
Habermas Lyotard and higher education | 54 |
Lyotards pessimism and Rortys prophecy | 73 |
5 Lyotard as moral educator | 97 |
6 The sublime face of just education | 110 |
7 Another space | 125 |
9 In freedoms grip | 157 |
the unpresentable ambivalence and feminist possibility | 177 |
Lyotards relevance for a pedagogy of the Other | 194 |
12 For a libidinal education | 215 |
13 Pointlessness and the University of Beauty | 230 |
Bibliography | 259 |
Index of themes | 269 |
Index of names | 271 |
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