Anglický jazyk

Dystopia and Education

Vydavateľstvo: Information Age Publishing
Rok vydania: 2013
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9781623962845

Na objednávku, dodanie 2-4 týždne

101.79 €

bežná cena: 113.10 €

O knihe

Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy in an age of Utopia Gone Wrong provides
an as-of-yet unexplored critical perspective for examining contemporary educational theory, praxis, and
policy with particular reference to the current state of dehumanizing and often oppressive policy and
practices that have come to demarcate the era of NCLB and RTT. The authors in this collection employ
dystopian themes found in literature, film, visual art, and video games as the lens for that critical inquiry. As
such Dystopia and Education: Insights into Theory, Praxis, and Policy is an essential contribution to the
philosophical/critical tradition in educational scholarship. It is especially valuable because the inquiry
undertaken is from a new perspective-one that will extend the critical tradition into a yet unexplored arena.
Given the educational climate established by NCLB and RTT, this collection is especially important to the ongoing critical analysis of such policy
mandates. There is also a significantly important timeliness to this book given NCLB's utopian expectation of universal academic proficiency among
American schoolchildren by the year 2014: as educators race to achieve such a noble yet naïve goal, this collection of essays examines the educational
environment that has been enacted to achieve such ends, and describes our current state as a utopia-gone wrong.