Reimagining liberal education
Subtitle: affiliation and inquiry in democratic schooling
By: Hanan A. Alexander
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781441167644; 9781441122438
Subjects: Humanistic Education; Education; Philosophy; Aims and objectives; Democracy and education; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects; EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives; RELIGION / General
Description: "This challenging and provocative book reimagines the justification, substance, process, and study of education in open, pluralistic, liberal democratic societies.Hanan Alexander argues that educators need to enable students to embark on a quest for intelligent spirituality, while paying heed to a pedagogy of difference. Through close analysis of the work of such thinkers as William James, Charles Taylor, Elliot Eisner, Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Martin Buber, Michael Apple and Terrence McLaughlin, Reimagining Liberal Education offers an account of school curriculum and moral and religious instruction that throws new light on the possibilities of a nuanced, rounded education for citizenship.  Divided into three parts - Transcendental Pragmatism in Educational Research, Pedagogy of Difference and the Other Face of Liberalism, and Intelligent Spirituality in the Curriculum, this is a thrilling work of philosophy that builds upon the author's award-winning text Reclaiming Goodness: Education and the Spiritual Quest"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Prologue1. Schools Without FaithPart II: Transcendental Pragmatism in Educational Research2. A View from Somewhere3. Aesthetics Inquiry in Education4. Traditions of Inquiry in EducationPart III: Pedagogy of Difference and the Other Face of Liberalism5. Education in Ideology6. Literacy and the Education of Citizens7. What is Common about Common Schooling?Part IV: Intelligent Spirituality in the Curriculum8. Human Agency and the Curriculum9. Moral Education in Liberal Democracy10. Religious Initiation in Liberal Democracy Part V: Epilogue 11. To the Truth, Roughly Speaking12. Spirituality, Morality, and Criticism in EducationNotesBibliographyIndex.