Reimagining Liberal Education

This challenging and provocative book reimagines the justification substance process and study of education in open pluralistic liberal democratic societies.<br/><br/>Hanan Alexander argues that educators need to enable students to embark on a quest for intelligent spirituality while paying heed to a pedagogy of difference. Through close analysis of the work of such thinkers as William James Charles Taylor Elliot Eisner Michael Oakeshott Isaiah Berlin Martin Buber Michael Apple and Terrence McLaughlin <i>Reimagining Liberal Education</i> offers an account of school curriculum and moral and religious instruction that throws new light on the possibilities of a nuanced rounded education for citizenship. <br/><br/>Divided into three parts - Transcendental Pragmatism in Educational Research Pedagogy of Difference and the Other Face of Liberalism and Intelligent Spirituality in the Curriculum this is a thrilling work of philosophy that builds upon the author's award-winning text <i>Reclaiming Goodness: Education and the Spiritual Quest</i>.