Edutopias : : new utopian thinking in education / / edited by Michael A. Peters and John Freeman-Moir.

• Superior document: Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Peters, Michael, 1948-; Freeman-Moir, D. John,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2006]; 2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Bold visions in educational research ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Michael A. Peters and John Freeman-Moir -- Introducing Edutopias: Concept, Genealogy, Futures / Michael A. Peters and John Freeman-Moir -- Hegemonic and Marginalised Educational Utopias in the Contemporary Western World / Ivana Milojevic -- Dystopian Nightmares and Educated Hopes: The Return of the Pedagogical and the Promise of Democracy / Henry Giroux -- On Enfraudening the Public Sphere / David Geoffrey Smith -- Reality on Trial: Notes on Ideology, Education, and Utopia / Zeus Leonardo -- Totalitarianism and the “Repressed” Utopia of the Present: Moving beyond Hayek, Popper and Foucault / Mark Olssen -- Education, Utopia and the Limits of Enlightenment / Robert A. Davis -- Feminist Utopian Thinking: Solutions to the “Gender Problem” in Education? / Christine Forde -- Whose Utopia? Which Ideals? The Importance of Societal and Personal Ideals in Education / Doret de Ruyter -- A Habit of Life: William Morris and Utopia as Education / John Freeman-Moir -- Durkheim, Vygotsky and the Curriculum of the Future / Michael F.D. Young -- The Human Condition or the Conditions Humans Live In: The Contribution of Theatre to the Discourse of Utopia / Alan Scott -- The Concepts of a “Networked Common School” / Leonard J. Waks -- Philosophy as a Bridge between Postmodern Culture and Education, or: In Support of Postmodern Philosophical Educational Utopias / Aharon Aviram -- Utopia and Education in Turkish Englightenment Process / Faruk Öztürk -- Educational Policy Futures / Michael A. Peters.