Rebecca K. Webb

A Conflict of Paradigms

Social Epistemology and the Collapse of Literary Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this combined examination of the history, theories, and practices in the teaching of English, the author presents compelling insight and practical solutions to the crisis in English education and the conflict among critical theories, radical pedagogy, classroom practice, epistemics, the pressure to vocationalize the curriculum, and the corporatization of institutes of learning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780739117569
• ISBN-10: 0739117564
• Artikelnr.: 24887257

Autorenporträt

Dr. Rebecca Webb is an instructor of English at College of San Mateo.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Social Epistemology and English Studies Education Chapter 2
Institutionalized Romantic Humanism and the Modern Student of Literature
Chapter 3 From Romantic Humanist to Postmodern PedagogyHow the Alien
Becomes Normative in Contemporary Education Chapter 4 Postmodern Identity
Politics vs. the Romanticized Autonomous Student Chapter 5 Postmodern
Pedagogy vs. the Vocationalization of Education Chapter 6 Critical Theory,
Pedagogy and the Postmodern Student of English: Dialogic Critical Pedagogy
as Intervention and Liberation Chapter 7 Taking a Dialogic Critical
Pedagogy into the ClassroomStory of an Evolving Pedagogy Chapter 8
Conclusion