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A comprehensive and original study that demonstrates the significance and pertinence of the scholarship of George Grant for teaching today. William F. Pinar presents a comprehensive and original study that demonstrates the significance and pertinence of the scholarship of George Grant for teaching today.
While there are studies of Grant's political philosophy, there has been no sustained study of his teaching. Pinar not only draws upon the collected works; he has also consulted Grant's PhD thesis at Oxford, as well as the philosopher's biography, collected letters, and the vast secondary literature. What emerges is a treatise that reveals Grant's timeliness and his prescience in identifying and critiquing key educational issues nearly half a century ago, from academic vocationalism and educational technology to privatization and the ascendency of research—issues that are eminently relevant today.
Beyond the classroom, Grant's concerns extended to the impact of economic globalization which, he feared, would erase distinctive national histories and cultures. As such, Grant foresaw the current issues of right-wing populism, notably in the UK and the US, as reactions against these historical tendencies. This volume is destined to become an indispensable reference work for students of Grant in particular and for students of education in general.
Published in English.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
A Progressive Christian Platonist
Subjective Presence
This Book
Reactivation
Notes
CHAPTER 1
Why?
Reactivation
Reconstruction
Moving Images
Teaching
Becoming Historical
Progressivism
Conclusion
CHAPTER 2
Technology
Our Civilizational Destiny
Conclusion
CHAPTER 3
Time
Lament for a Nation
Grant's Lament
Conclusion
CHAPTER 4
Teaching
Reactivating the Past in the Present
Complicated Conversation
Curriculum and Teaching
What Knowledge is of Most Worth?
Conclusion
CHAPTER 5
Idolatry
Idolatry
The Gap
Iconography
Conclusion
CHAPTER 6
Attunement
Quietude
Listening
Transcendence
Conclusion
CHAPTER 7
Eternity
Reactivation
Time
The Perpetuity of the Past
Eternity in Time
Conclusion
Epilogue
Politics
Freedom
Teaching
Time
Technology
Conclusion
References
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