Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and EducationMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01.03.1997 - 336 Seiten Solway explains that the current generation of students, raised in a nonhistorical and iconic environment, do not live in time as an emergent, continuous medium in which the complexities of experience are parsed and organized. Their psychological world is largely devoid of syntax - of causal, differential, and temporal relations between events. The result is precisely what we see about us: a cultural world characterized by a vast subpopulation of young (and not so young) people for whom the past is an unsubstantiated rumour and the future an unacknowledged responsibility. Solway claims that contemporary educators have become cultural speculators who disregard a basic truth about how the mind develops: that it needs to be grounded in reality and time. In education, as in almost every other cultural institution, the sense of reality and the dynamic of time have "virtually" disappeared, leading to the deep disconnectedness we experience on every level of "human grammar," from the organization of the community to the organization of the sentence. Lying about the Wolf is not only an exploration of current pedagogical issues but also, and perhaps primarily, a cultural analysis for which the subject of education provides a focus. Solway argues that we cannot hope to solve the educational problem unless we are prepared to deal with the larger cultural predicament. |
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... reading for anyone interested in isolating the causes behind the socioeconomic malaise in all areas of public life , including education . I should also mention Arthur Kroker's and Michael Weinstein's Data Trash which sets forth with a ...
... reading for anyone interested in isolating the causes behind the socioeconomic malaise in all areas of public life , including education . I should also mention Arthur Kroker's and Michael Weinstein's Data Trash which sets forth with a ...
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... reading Camille Paglia's Sex , Art , and American Culture , and found , with both delight and dismay , that not a few of my own commendations and condemnations had been anticipated by that ardent and redoubtable writer , particularly in ...
... reading Camille Paglia's Sex , Art , and American Culture , and found , with both delight and dismay , that not a few of my own commendations and condemnations had been anticipated by that ardent and redoubtable writer , particularly in ...
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Essays in Culture and Education David Solway. This page intentionally left blank Note on the Text The reader will find a modicum.
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Essays in Culture and Education David Solway. Note on the Text The reader will find a modicum of cross - references throughout owing to the occasional manner in which most of the essays started out on their eventual careers . Some began ...
Essays in Culture and Education David Solway. Note on the Text The reader will find a modicum of cross - references throughout owing to the occasional manner in which most of the essays started out on their eventual careers . Some began ...
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... Script and Nondescript , ” were independent ventures , beginning at the writing table in 1993 and gradually completed over the next two years . Note on Notes The reader will remark , perhaps ruefully xiv Note on the Text.
... Script and Nondescript , ” were independent ventures , beginning at the writing table in 1993 and gradually completed over the next two years . Note on Notes The reader will remark , perhaps ruefully xiv Note on the Text.
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1 Grammatical Fictions | 5 |
2 Dead Teachers Society | 32 |
3 Balnibarbian Architecture | 41 |
4 The Anecdotal Function | 68 |
5 What about Food? | 78 |
6 Script and Nondescript | 94 |
7 The Bipolar Paradigm | 108 |
8 Charlie Dont Surf | 136 |
9 Teaching Down or Learning Up | 153 |
Notes | 189 |
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