Edutopias: New Utopian Thinking in EducationMichael A. Peters, D. John Freeman-Moir Education has always been part of the search for the ideal society and, therefore, an important part of the utopian tradition in Western culture, politics and literature. Education has often served to define the ideal society or to provide the principal means of creating it. This unique collection of essays by well known scholars from around the world examines the role of edutopias in the utopian tradition, examining its sources and sites as a means for understanding the aims and purposes of education, for realizing its societal value, and for criticizing its present economic, technological and organizational modes. These essays will stimulate new thinking in ways that impinge on both theoretical and practical questions, as well as offering the reader a series of reminders of the ethical and political dimensions of education and its place in helping to build good and just societies. The collection is aimed at an audience of teachers and graduate students, although it will also be of interest to administrators, policy-makers and the general public interested in utopian thinking and its relation to education. |
Contents
Introducing Edutopias Concept Genealogy Futures | 1 |
Hegemonic and Marginalised Educational Utopias in the ContemporaryWestern World | 21 |
Dystopian Nightmares and Educated Hopes The Return of the Pedagogical and the Promise of Democracy | 45 |
On Enfraudening the Public Sphere The Futility of Empire and the Future of Knowledge after America | 65 |
Reality on Trial Notes on Ideology Education and Utopia | 79 |
Totalitarianism and the Repressed Utopia of the Present Moving beyond Hayek Popper and Foucault | 99 |
Education Utopia and the Limits of Enlightenment | 125 |
Feminist Utopian Thinking Solutions to the Gender Problem in Education | 145 |
A Habit of Life William Morris and Utopia as Education | 175 |
Durkheim Vygotsky and the Curriculum of the Future | 191 |
The Human Condition or the Conditions Humans Live In The Contribution of Theatre to the Discourse of Utopia | 213 |
The Concepts of a Networked Common School | 225 |
Philosophy as a Bridge between Postmodern Culture and Education or In Support of Postmodern Philosophical Educational Utopias | 235 |
Utopia and Education in Turkish Englightenment Process | 257 |
Educational Policy Futures | 269 |
Whose Utopia? Which Ideals? The Importance of Societal and Personal Ideals in Education | 163 |
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