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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... critical 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 ...
... critical 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 ...
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... 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) and ...
... 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) and ...
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... critical importance for education: on its aims, legitimation, and accountability; on democracy, citizenship, and globalization; on colonialism and multiculturalism, pluralism and relativism; on capitalism, Marxism, and feminism; on ...
... critical importance for education: on its aims, legitimation, and accountability; on democracy, citizenship, and globalization; on colonialism and multiculturalism, pluralism and relativism; on capitalism, Marxism, and feminism; on ...
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... critical to the study of a subject (with all the excitement and intensity that this can mean). An occasion for judgment is provided through an irreconcilability that can receive an appropriate response only through the experience of the ...
... critical to the study of a subject (with all the excitement and intensity that this can mean). An occasion for judgment is provided through an irreconcilability that can receive an appropriate response only through the experience of the ...
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... critical essays that address familiar problems regarding Lyotard's work: his appropriation of Wittgenstein's ideas, his opposition to Jürgen Habermas, his relation to capitalism. This leads, in Chapter 5, into a discussion of moral ...
... critical essays that address familiar problems regarding Lyotard's work: his appropriation of Wittgenstein's ideas, his opposition to Jürgen Habermas, his relation to capitalism. This leads, in Chapter 5, into a discussion of moral ...
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