The stranger within : : on the idea of an educated public / / Jean Barr.
Increasing numbers of people now receive a higher education. Yet we still do not have that ‘educated public’ about which the philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, wrote two decades ago. The stranger within: On the idea of an educated public reflects on this situation, regarding the future shape of the un...
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| Superior document: | Educational Futures ; 22 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2008] 2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Educational Futures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Re-Framing the Democratic Intellect and the Idea of an Educated Public
- The Idea of an Educated Public
- ‘Dumbing Down’, Lifelong Learning and Museums
- The Common Sense of Subjects
- After Davie: A Civil Society of Disciplined Intellect
- Knowledge from Below: Adult Education and Social Movements
- The Scottish Enlightenment: Class and the Public Sphere
- The Scottish Enlightenment: Sex and the Public Sphere
- History, The Nation and a View from the Colonies
- Embodied Knowledge
- Undiscovered Public Knowledge and Educational Research
- The Role of Universities in Reframing the Democratic Intellect
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.