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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... Knowledge and Truth Beyond the postmodern impasse Edited by David Carr 5 Virtue Ethics and Moral Education Edited by David Carr and Jan Steutel 6 Durkheim and Modern Education Edited by Geoffrey Walford and W. S. F. Pickering 7 The Aims ...
... Knowledge and Truth Beyond the postmodern impasse Edited by David Carr 5 Virtue Ethics and Moral Education Edited by David Carr and Jan Steutel 6 Durkheim and Modern Education Edited by Geoffrey Walford and W. S. F. Pickering 7 The Aims ...
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... knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's pessimism and Rorty's prophecy 73 J. M. FRITZMAN 5 Lyotard as moral educator 97 A. T. NUYEN 6 The sublime face of just education 110 ...
... knowledge: Habermas, Lyotard, and higher education 54 NIGEL BLAKE 4 Overcoming capitalism: Lyotard's pessimism and Rorty's prophecy 73 J. M. FRITZMAN 5 Lyotard as moral educator 97 A. T. NUYEN 6 The sublime face of just education 110 ...
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... knowledge in the most highly developed 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 ...
... knowledge in the most highly developed 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 ...
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... knowledge is precisely the division between the practitioners of science and the decision-makers, those especially who provide the funds. This is a product not of science itself but of the socio-economic system, and it is one in which ...
... knowledge is precisely the division between the practitioners of science and the decision-makers, those especially who provide the funds. This is a product not of science itself but of the socio-economic system, and it is one in which ...
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... knowledge that could result in the most terrify- ingly unjust practices. It is this necessity of judgment and indeterminacy of knowledge that, for Lyotard, make difficult issues of majority and minority relations in all contexts. These ...
... knowledge that could result in the most terrify- ingly unjust practices. It is this necessity of judgment and indeterminacy of knowledge that, for Lyotard, make difficult issues of majority and minority relations in all contexts. These ...
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