Conformism and Critique in Liberal SocietyISBN: 978-1-4051-3885-7
Paperback
240 pages
September 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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This internationally-authored and edited book contains a
wide-ranging examination of the role of critique in education in
liberal democracies.
- Motivated by a concern for social justice and improvement in
education.
- International in focus, containing contributions from authors
in nine different countries.
- Covers topics such as negative critique, critique and
relativism, critique and utopianism, and the limits of
critique.
- Brings out the contrasts and similarities between European and
Anglophone treatments of these issues.
- Structured in a debate format, so that each chapter is paired with a piece that engages critically with it.