Navigating through the storm : : reinventing education for postmodern democracies / / Aharon Aviram.

• Superior document: Educational Futures ; 34
• VerfasserIn: Aviram, Roni, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam, Netherlands : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures ; 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book aims to systematically tackle the most severe crisis to ever beset Western education systems, which stems from the growing clash between the Platonic-modern civilization—still very much at the core of prevailing education systems—and the postmodern civilization which has become dominant in...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• The Crisis of Modern Education in the Postmodern Era
• The Disappearance of Educational Goals in the Postmodern Era
• The Disappearance of Justification for the Theoretical Curriculum in the Postmodern Era
• The Disappearance of Structural Functionality of the Modern School in the Postmodern Era
• The Disappearance of Schools’ Target Audience in the Postmodern Era
• Educational Goals for Postmodern Liberal Democracies
• An Educational Program for Postmodern Liberal Democracies
• A Structure for Educational Organizations in Postmodern Liberal Democracies
• The Status of Young People in Postmodern Liberal Democracies
• The Importance of Navigating Through the Postmodern Storm
• Implementing Autonomy Oriented Education Today
• Annex 1: My Intellectual Journey
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index.