The Gleam of Light: Moral Perfectionism and Education in Dewey and Emerson

by Naoko Saito

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224627
• ISBN13: 9780823224623
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"