Rebecca K. Webb

Broschiertes Buch

Conflict of Paradigms

Social Epistemology and the Collapse of Literary Education

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9780739117569
• ISBN-10: 0739117564
• Artikelnr.: 24887257

Rezensionen

For the past two decades, social epistemology has made the case at both a theoretical and a practical level that knowledge is constitutively social. However, this message has been mostly aimed at the natural sciences. Rebecca Webb has decisively broadened the field's horizons by bringing social epistemology into the heartland of humanistic education, enhancing it with her distinctive brand of critical pedagogy. Readers will be especially gratified by the sensitive intermingling of more general theoretical discussions with careful treatments of sample student papers from Webb's own classes. -- Steve Fuller, Founding editor of the journal and author of the book, both named Social Epistemology