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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... attempts to make all discourse commensurable. In Lyotard's view, Peters suggests, the building and mastery of a world ... attempt to do so disrespects these differences, putting those groups that are different from dominant cultures and ...
... attempts to make all discourse commensurable. In Lyotard's view, Peters suggests, the building and mastery of a world ... attempt to do so disrespects these differences, putting those groups that are different from dominant cultures and ...
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... attempts this by taking up the theme of childhood and relating this to Lyotard's writings on “the jews.” What ... attempt to assess the possibility of feminism in Lyotard's writings. The notion of the unpresentable, accompanied by ...
... attempts this by taking up the theme of childhood and relating this to Lyotard's writings on “the jews.” What ... attempt to assess the possibility of feminism in Lyotard's writings. The notion of the unpresentable, accompanied by ...
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... attempts to analyze and unsettle existing configurations of power, to defamiliarize what is often passed off as the ordinary, and to challenge modernity's conception of knowledge as ahistorical, neutral, and separated from value and ...
... attempts to analyze and unsettle existing configurations of power, to defamiliarize what is often passed off as the ordinary, and to challenge modernity's conception of knowledge as ahistorical, neutral, and separated from value and ...
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... teach with an objective, neutral eye for the structures in place. It is also, however, an attempt to introduce fissures and cracks into those structures by multiplying them in a 20 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
... teach with an objective, neutral eye for the structures in place. It is also, however, an attempt to introduce fissures and cracks into those structures by multiplying them in a 20 Pradeep A. Dhillon and Paul Standish.
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... affirmation. Bearn's elaboration of what the University of Beauty might be like involves an attempt to recover the intense joys of pointless play, to show how there can be a good kind of pointlessness. This Introduction 21.
... affirmation. Bearn's elaboration of what the University of Beauty might be like involves an attempt to recover the intense joys of pointless play, to show how there can be a good kind of pointlessness. This Introduction 21.
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