The Problem of Freedom in Postmodern Education (Critical Studies in Education & Culture (Paperback))

Tomasz Szkudlarek

ISBN 10: 0897893239 / ISBN 13: 9780897893237

Published by Praeger (UK), 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Problem of Freedom in Postmodern Education (Critical Studies in Education & Culture (Paperback))
• Publisher: Praeger (UK)
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897893239
• ISBN 13: 9780897893237
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Postmodernism in the West and postsocialism in Eastern Europe have deep features in common as they both challenge the foundations of the world order. They create a new educational situation where basic issues of subjectivity, identity, human freedom, and social agency need to be reevaluated and reconstructed. This situation affects both sides of the former Iron Curtain since East and West served as each other's Other in terms of identity formation. This book deals with the problem of freedom and identity in educational theories as they are reinterpreted in the critical perspective of postmodern social theory and postsocialist political openness. Issues of freedom and identity are considered as dialectically related to those of power and emancipation. This book sketches a metatheoretical perspective on emancipatory education in a broad, trans-cultural context appropriate to the new global community.

About the Author

TOMASZ SZKUDLAREK is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Education at the University of Gdansk in Poland. He has written books on critical pedagogy published in Poland and numerous articles in educational journals.