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Better Worlds
Education, Art, and Utopia
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2013
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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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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6647-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6648-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
180
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Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, and Education No access
Chapter One: Crafting Experience: William Morris, John Dewey, and Utopia No access Pages 1 - 26
Chapter Two: Art for Dishonor, Utopian Inflection, Sympathy’s Education No access Pages 27 - 58
Chapter Three: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Struggle for Redemption: Iris Murdoch and Educative Attention No access Pages 59 - 78
Chapter Four: Pictures and Particularities: The Uncertain Creativity of Action No access Pages 79 - 110
Chapter Five: Education and the Dream of a Better World: The Pedagogy of Paulo Freire No access Pages 111 - 130
Chapter Six: A Golden Age?: Dostoevsky, Taoism, and Utopia No access Pages 131 - 150
Chapter Seven: Technology, Utopia, and Scholarly Life: Ideals and Realities in the Work of Hermann Hesse No access Pages 151 - 166
