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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Page vii
... theory and poststructuralism, with a particular interest in higher education, identity and pluralism, electronic media in education, and connections between education and economics. Much of his work is done in collaboration with Paul ...
... theory and poststructuralism, with a particular interest in higher education, identity and pluralism, electronic media in education, and connections between education and economics. Much of his work is done in collaboration with Paul ...
Page viii
... theory, critical theory, critical pedagogy, and philosophy of dialogue. He is the author of many articles and contributions in this field and of two books: Pädagogisches Handeln und Kommunikatives Handeln (Deutscher Studienverlag, 1991) ...
... theory, critical theory, critical pedagogy, and philosophy of dialogue. He is the author of many articles and contributions in this field and of two books: Pädagogisches Handeln und Kommunikatives Handeln (Deutscher Studienverlag, 1991) ...
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... theory, and feminist theory. She has published widely both in her home country and internationally in such journals as Teachers College Record, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Journal of Curriculum ...
... theory, and feminist theory. She has published widely both in her home country and internationally in such journals as Teachers College Record, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Journal of Curriculum ...
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... theory is always vulnerable to incorporation into this system: its desire for a unitary and totalizing truth lends itself to the unitary and totalizing practices of the system's managers. So also, it can be added, is radical theory, as ...
... theory is always vulnerable to incorporation into this system: its desire for a unitary and totalizing truth lends itself to the unitary and totalizing practices of the system's managers. So also, it can be added, is radical theory, as ...
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... theory, a programme or a project – and indeed one has to, all the while anticipating that something. One can also ... theories, programmes, and projects. The something that remains to be determined, however, is not to be 8 Pradeep A ...
... theory, a programme or a project – and indeed one has to, all the while anticipating that something. One can also ... theories, programmes, and projects. The something that remains to be determined, however, is not to be 8 Pradeep A ...
Contents
1 | |
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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