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PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter
ISBN-100820469149
ISBN-139780820469140
eBay Product ID (ePID)30764717
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXii, 220 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBetwixt and between : the Liminal Imagination, Education and Democracy
SubjectDecision-Making & Problem Solving, General, Creativity, Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Publication Year2004
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Self-Help, Education
AuthorJames C. Conroy
SeriesCounterpoints Ser.: Studies in Criticality
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-011044
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsA humane, scholarly, and profoundly counter-cultural text which resists the domination of education by technical, economic and bureaucratic considerations. For its discussions of the place of laughter in education and the role of poetry and imagination in the liberation of the human mind, this book deserves to be used in all teacher education programmes. Although written by a Catholic, it has all the power of Luther's denunciation of current corruptions in institutional culture and practice. (Gerald Grace, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London) James Conroy is right: if we want to counter the hegemony of economic thinking in education, we need to cultivate alternative images and metaphors of what education is for and what it is about. Conroy's eloquent and erudite exploration of the idea of liminality not only opens up exciting theoretical possibilities. His concern for the future of liberal democracy gives his writing a clear practical edge and results in imaginative, original and highly relevant suggestions and conclusions. This is a strong book with a powerful message. (Gert Biesta, Professor of Educational Theory, University of Exeter), «A humane, scholarly, and profoundly counter-cultural text which resists the domination of education by technical, economic and bureaucratic considerations. For its discussions of the place of laughter in education and the role of poetry and imagination in the liberation of the human mind, this book deserves to be used in all teacher education programmes. Although written by a Catholic, it has all the power of Luther's denunciation of current corruptions in institutional culture and practice.» (Gerald Grace, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London) «James Conroy is right: if we want to counter the hegemony of economic thinking in education, we need to cultivate alternative images and metaphors of what education is for and what it is about. Conroy's eloquent and erudite exploration of the idea of liminality not only opens up exciting theoretical possibilities. His concern for the future of liberal democracy gives his writing a clear practical edge and results in imaginative, original and highly relevant suggestions and conclusions. This is a strong book with a powerful message.» (Gert Biesta, Professor of Educational Theory, University of Exeter), «A humane, scholarly, and profoundly counter-cultural text which resists the domination of education by technical, economic and bureaucratic considerations. For its discussions of the place of laughter in education and the role of poetry and imagination in the liberation of the human mind, this book deserves to be used in all teacher education programmes. Although written by a Catholic, it has all the power of Luther_s denunciation of current corruptions in institutional culture and practice.» (Gerald Grace, Professor, Institute of Education, University of London) «James Conroy is right: if we want to counter the hegemony of economic thinking in education, we need to cultivate alternative images and metaphors of what education is for and what it is about. Conroy_s eloquent and erudite exploration of the idea of liminality not only opens up exciting theoretical possibilities. His concern for the future of liberal democracy gives his writing a clear practical edge and results in imaginative, original and highly relevant suggestions and conclusions. This is a strong book with a powerful message.» (Gert Biesta, Professor of Educational Theory, University of Exeter)
Series Volume Number265
Number of Volumes0 vols.
Dewey Decimal370/.1
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisCounterpoints publishes the most compelling and imaginative books being written in education today. Grounded on the theoretical advances in criticalism, feminism and postmodernism in the last two decades of the twentieth century, Counterpoints engages the meaning of these innovations in various forms of educational expression. Committed to the proposition that theoretical literature should be accessible to a variety of audiences, the series insists that its authors avoid esoteric and jargonistic languages that transform educational scholarship into an elite discourse for the initiated., Both neo-liberal and Third Way politicians and pundits have come to accept globalisation as the key determinant of social and political organization. Consequently, they have confused government's role in the liberal democratic state with that of the globalised corporation. The result has been a discursive closure about what counts as human flourishing, and about the nature of the educational provision which best serves such flourishing - which is co-terminous with economic success. This book offers both a challenge to such an equivalence, and an understanding of the dispositions and practices that are necessary for education to sustain a robust and invigorating openness in, and for, democracy. From an oblique and whimsical perspective, Betwixt and Between renovates a range of playful and interesting metaphors rooted in experiences and encounters with and at the limen (or threshold). In doing so it weaves through laughter, trickster, poetry, and religion.
LC Classification NumberLB14.7.C654 2004
