THE GLEAM OF LIGHT by Naoko Saito, Stanley Cavell (Foreword) ( 9780823224623 )

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Title:

THE GLEAM OF LIGHT
MORAL PERFECTIONISM AND EDUCATION IN DEWEY AND EMERSON

By:

Naoko Saito, Stanley Cavell (Foreword)

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0823224627

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FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

30 April, 2005

Series:

American Philosophy

Pages:

228

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"... Exemplifies a vision of education as cooperative inquiry in which heterogenous voices resound yet experiential authority in its full force operates."-Journal of Philosophy of Education

Synopsis:

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology andprocedures 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 humancondition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito readsDewey'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.

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