The gleam of light
Subtitle: moral perfectionism and education in Dewey and Emerson
By: Naoko Saito.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: American philosophy series ;; no. 16
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Dewey, John, 1859-1952; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882; Perfection; Education -- Philosophy
Description: "In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the human condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Naoko Saito reads Dewey's idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey's notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.