Challenging orthodoxies : toward a new cultural history of education /

Challenging orthodoxies : toward a new cultural history of education / Sol Cohen.

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Challenging Orthodoxies explores the implications of linguistics, literary criticism, and language theory in general for historians of education. This book introduces the core ideas of the "linguistic turn" and some of its major theorists. Hayden White, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault and C...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Cohen, Sol
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, ©1999.
Series:Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 76.
Subjects:
Education > United States > History > 20th century.
Education > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Educational anthropology > United States > History > 20th century.
Education.
Education > Social aspects.
Educational anthropology.
Undervisningsväsen > historia > Förenta staterna.
United States.
History.
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Summary:Challenging Orthodoxies explores the implications of linguistics, literary criticism, and language theory in general for historians of education. This book introduces the core ideas of the "linguistic turn" and some of its major theorists. Hayden White, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault and Clifford Geertz. By arguing for the primacy of language textuality and linguistic structures in historical narratives, this study revises conventional understanding of the writing and interpretation of histories of education.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 326 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.
ISSN:1058-1634 ;

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