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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... position. Burbules wants to acknowledge that education today is indeed colonized by hegemonic modes of discourse but, he suggests, there is a danger also in the fetishization of difference. It is precisely because people are speaking ...
... position. Burbules wants to acknowledge that education today is indeed colonized by hegemonic modes of discourse but, he suggests, there is a danger also in the fetishization of difference. It is precisely because people are speaking ...
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... position on women and on a possible feminist theory. Given this ambivalence it is appropriate to ask the questions: Are women unpresentable? Is a feminist “philosophy” possible? Stone also pursues a further question in the chapter ...
... position on women and on a possible feminist theory. Given this ambivalence it is appropriate to ask the questions: Are women unpresentable? Is a feminist “philosophy” possible? Stone also pursues a further question in the chapter ...
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... position is simply negated, nor a promise of a pure land that escapes the mistakes and evil of past ones. In contrast to any politics associated with a set of pure goals, the active passivity of Lyotard's apedagogy, as Williams puts it ...
... position is simply negated, nor a promise of a pure land that escapes the mistakes and evil of past ones. In contrast to any politics associated with a set of pure goals, the active passivity of Lyotard's apedagogy, as Williams puts it ...
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