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BETTER WORLDS
EDUCATION, ART, AND UTOPIA |
| By: |
Peter Roberts, John Freeman-Moir |
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Paperback |
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£42.00 |
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£42.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
149851085X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781498510851 |
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| Publisher: |
LEXINGTON BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
2 March, 2015 |
| Series: |
Critical Education Policy and Politics |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
This book, with its attention to literature and the visual arts as well as traditional non-fiction sources, provides a distinctive, wide-ranging exploration of utopia and education. Utopia is examined not as a model of social perfection but as an active, ongoing, imaginative educational process - the building of better worlds. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Lexington Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |