Challenging orthodoxies
Subtitle: toward a new cultural history of education
By: Sol Cohen.
Series: Counterpoints,; v. 76; Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 76.
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Educational anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: Challenging Orthodoxies explores the implications of linguistics, literary criticism, and language theory in general for historians of education. This book introduces the core ideas of the "linguistic turn" and some of its major theorists. Hayden White, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault and Clifford Geertz. By arguing for the primacy of language textuality and linguistic structures in historical narratives, this study revises conventional understanding of the writing and interpretation of histories of education.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-313) and index.