A conflict of paradigms : social epistemology and the collapse of literary education / Rebecca K. Webb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Webb, Rebecca K., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Postmodernism and education.

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

xvii, 167 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]

Summary:

A Conflict of Paradigms provides a historical analysis of literary education following the trend of radical pedagogy introduced in the 1980s. Rebecca K. Webb thoroughly sets the ground for debate by focusing equally on the advocates of radical pedagogy and the setbacks encountered in practice. Higher education has encountered a crisis as the humanitarian ideology of a liberal education conflicts with the corporatization of the university. Presenting theory with great clarity, Webb fully addresses many problems and contradictions faced in today's classroom, including the emphasis on teaching skills related to the professional world rather than critical thinking and the institutionalization of Romantic individualism in the humanities curriculum. Thorough and controversial, A Conflict of Paradigms is essential reading for educators and students of education, cultural studies, and English literature.

Contents:

Social epistemology and English studies education

Institutionalized romantic humanism and the modern student of literature

From romantic humanist to postmodern pedagogy: how the alien becomes normative in contemporary education

Postmodern identity politics vs. the romanticized autonomous student

Postmodern pedagogy vs. the vocationalization of education

Critical theory, pedagogy, and the postmodern student of English: dialogic critical pedagogy as intervention and liberation

Taking a dialogic critical pedagogy into the classroom: the story of an evolving pedagogy

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index.

ISBN:

9780739117552

0739117556

OCLC:

85813744