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Conformism and Critique in Liberal Society
Frieda Heyting (Editor), Christopher Winch (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3885-7
Paperback
240 pages
October 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.