Educating for Participatory Democracy
Paradoxes in Globalizing Logic
Published on 30. August 2009
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-57273-562-0 (ISBN)
Description
This collection is a collaborative, international effort to reflect on a broad range of issues relating to globalization. Several encompassing themes are addressed. One central issue concerns ideals proper to the democratic nation-state and their relationship to a globalizing culture. A second theme is the tension between increasing needs for technical, ""Western"" education and the desire to maintain and enhance the cultural richness of ""local"" worlds. A third related theme is an attempt to understand the nature of modern technology and its relationship to the lifeworld and the lived worlds of indigenous peoples. Finally, discussions of globalization inevitably involve questions regarding the nature of history and human freedom. Is globalization a necessary force? Does human historical existence provide the resources for the free creation and preservation of other cultural worlds?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cresskill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57273-562-0 (9781572735620)
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Content
Introduction - Roy Elveton; Hermeneutics of the Other: The Limits of Modern Western Education - Algis Mickunas; The Ethnic Plurality of Identities in the Education of the Globalized 21st Century - Antonio Gallo, SJ; The Dethronement of Reason - Roy Elveton; Theory and Outline of a Research Mode for Managing Cultural Change - Joseph Pilotta; The Philosopher and the Democratic Construction of Society - Moris Polanco; Difference and Globalization, Rodolfo Arevalo; Cultural Work and the Retrieval of Globalization - John Murphy. Aesthetic Embodiment as a Revolutionary Practice, Rekha Menon; White Mythologies - Amilcar Davila; Educational Reform and the Construction of Identities in the Era of Globalization - Bienvenido Argueta Hernandez; Phenomenological Insights into Globalizing Education and the Globalization and Citizenship: Is There Room for Pedagogy? - Carlos Aldana Mendoza; Civic Education and the Lived World - Joseph Freeman; Integrating the Magical and Using the Shamanic in Global Education - Michael Purdy; Conditioning Factors in Guatamalan Education - Emesto Loukota; Being in Time or Being in the World - Carlos Seijas; Author Index; Subject Index.