Habermas, Critical Theory and Education

by Murphy; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415806176
• ISBN10: 0415806178
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book delivers a definitive contribution to the understanding of Habermas's oeuvre as it applies to education. The authors examine Habermas's contribution to pedagogy, learning and classroom interaction; the relation between education, civil society and the state; forms of democracy, reason and critical thinking; and performativity, audit cultures and accountability.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Communication, Deliberation, Reason: An Introduction to Habermas	p. 3
Key Issues and Debates in Habermas and Education	p. 17
Educational Implications of the Idea of Deliberative Democracy	p. 19
Communicative Utopia and Political Re-education	p. 33
The Concept of Lifeworld and Education in Post-modernity: A Critical Appraisal of Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action	p. 47
Habermas, Eurocentrism and Education: The Indigenous Knowledge Debate	p. 63
Forms of Rationality and Public Sector Reform: Habermas, Education and Social Policy	p. 78
Habermas Applied: Critical Theory and Educational Provision	p. 95
Developing Competence in Collegial Spaces: Exploring Critical Theory and Community Education	p. 97
Condemned to Learn: Habermas, University and the Learning Society	p. 111
Learning Democratic Reason: The Adult Education Project of Jurgen Habermas	p. 125
Citizenship, Discourse Ethics and an Emancipatory Model of Lifelong Learning	p. 137
Practice and Theory of Narrative Inquiry in Education	p. 153
Educating Social Workers for Lifeworld and System	p. 169
Jürgen Habermas, Critical Social Theory and Nursing Education: Implications for Caring in Nursing	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 199
Taking Aim at the Heart of Education: Critical Theory and the Future of Learning	p. 201
Contributors	p. 208
Index	p. 212
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