The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson
(Part of the American Philosophy Series)
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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, 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823224635
ISBN13:9780823224630
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:228 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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