Education, Knowledge and Truth: Beyond the Postmodern Impasse

by David Carr

2021-01-07 15:05:05

This collection aims to explore different conceptions of epistemological inquiry and their influence on pedagogy and the curricular content of primary and secondary education. It is arguable that curriculum policy makers have continued to subscribe t... Read more
This collection aims to explore different conceptions of epistemological inquiry and their influence on pedagogy and the curricular content of primary and secondary education. It is arguable that curriculum policy makers have continued to subscribe to a foundationalist paradigm of rational educational planning. This is, however, considered largely untenable by educational philosophers in light of the impact of ''postmodern'' philsophical critiques on the notions of objectivity, truth and authority in our claims for knowledge. This volume fills a major gap in the current literature of educational philosophy by calling for the establishment of a coherent route between rational foundationalism and intellectually promiscuous postmodernism in order to address the point and purpose of contemporary education. Less

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File size9.21 X 6.14 X 0.9 in
Print pages264
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date November 24, 1998
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780415163170
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David Carr is Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is also the author of The Parado...

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