Title: Challenging orthodoxies
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Education, Educational anthropology, History, Social aspects, Social aspects of Education, Kulturwandel, Pädagogik, Undervisningsväsen, Onderwijs, Historia, Geschiedschrijving, Education, history
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: LA209 .C635 1999