Wheels in the head
Subtitle: educational philosophies of authority, freedom, and culture from Socrates to Paulo Freire
By: Joel Spring.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780070605299
Subjects: Education -- Philosophy -- History; Education -- Social aspects; Education -- Political aspects; Critical pedagogy; Free schools
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: About the author; title: Part one : Autocratic and democratic forms of education.; title: Education and the authoritarian state; title: Educational problems in a democratic state; title: Part two : Dissenting traditions in education.; title: Traditions of dissent to government education; title: Free schools; title: Free space and no schools; title: Part three : The politics of culture.; title: Cultural unity and cultural literacy; title: National or world cultures?; title: Part four. The politics of gender.; title: Classical liberalism and the politics of gender; title: Reason and motherhood; title: Part five : Education and equality of political power.; title: Pedagogy of the oppressed; title: Equality of political power in a global economy