John Dewey and the paradox of liberal reform
This book provides a fresh critique of John Dewey and the progressive tradition and warns against the superficial renaissance of Deweyan philosophy present in many of today's modern liberal educational reform movements. Challenging the four pillars of Dewey's pragmatism--science, nature, democracy, experience--Paringer argues for a critical or radical education praxis that more sensitively comes to grips with the difficulties of teh nuclearized, postmodern world
Print Book, English, ©1990
State University of New York Press, Albany, ©1990
vii, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
9780791402535, 9780791402542, 0791402533, 0791402541
20853067