Better Worlds
Education, Art, and Utopia
1st Edition
Published on 21. February 2013
208 pages
978-0-7391-6648-2 (ISBN)
Description
Better Worlds: Education, Art, and Utopia provides a fresh examination of utopia and education. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, the authors explore utopia not as a model of social perfection but as the active, imaginative building of better worlds. Utopian questions, they argue, lie at the heart of education, and addressing such questions demands attention not just to matters of theoretical principle but to the particulars of everyday life and experience. Taking utopia seriously in educational thought also involves a consideration of that which is dystopian. Utopia, this book suggests, is not something that is fixed, final, or ever fully realized; instead, it must be constantly recreated, and education, as an ongoing process of reflection, action, and transformation, has a central role to play in this process.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-6648-2 (9780739166482)
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Persons
Peter Roberts is professor of Education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He teaches philosophy of education and educational policy studies.
John Freeman-Moir is senior lecturer in the College of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he teaches utopian social theory, sociology of education, and philosophy of education.
John Freeman-Moir is senior lecturer in the College of Education at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, where he teaches utopian social theory, sociology of education, and philosophy of education.
Content
Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, and Education
Chapter 1: Crafting Experience: William Morris, John Dewey, and Utopia
Chapter 2: Art for Dishonour, Utopian Inflection, Sympathy's Education
Chapter 3: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Struggle for Redemption: Iris Murdoch and Educative Attention
Chapter 4: Pictures and Particularities: The Uncertain Creativity of Action
Chapter 5: Education and the Dream of a Better World: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire
Chapter 6: A Golden Age? Dostoevsky, Taoism, and Utopia
Chapter 7: Technology, Utopia, and Scholarly Life: Ideals and Realities in the Work of Hermann Hesse
Chapter 1: Crafting Experience: William Morris, John Dewey, and Utopia
Chapter 2: Art for Dishonour, Utopian Inflection, Sympathy's Education
Chapter 3: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Struggle for Redemption: Iris Murdoch and Educative Attention
Chapter 4: Pictures and Particularities: The Uncertain Creativity of Action
Chapter 5: Education and the Dream of a Better World: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire
Chapter 6: A Golden Age? Dostoevsky, Taoism, and Utopia
Chapter 7: Technology, Utopia, and Scholarly Life: Ideals and Realities in the Work of Hermann Hesse
