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Bazzul, Jesse – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This article insists that solidarity with nonhumans is not only a fundamental aspect of symbiotic existence, but a key aspect of resistance to global imperialism. Whilst Indigenous communities have long nurtured and maintained a rich symbiosis and solidarity with nonhumans, modern western thought and social theory must seriously expand its…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Ecology, Philosophy, Humanism
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Hoover, Dwight W. – History Teacher, 1992
Questions assumptions of the New Historicism, a recent development in literary criticism. Suggests some problems that such an essentially political approach engenders. Includes lack of a common bond between author and reader, a universal model of historical change based upon the ideas of Marx and others, and contextualism. Argues that historians…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Hermeneutics, Historiography, Literary Criticism
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Parker, Michael C. – Journal of General Education, 1998
Examines general education in the context of postmodern critiques of contemporary civilization. Suggests that the fundamental crisis facing educators is the increasing marginalization of higher learning by commodity marketers, corporate trainers, and producers of "infotainment." (JDI)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Change, Futures (of Society), General Education
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Castree, Noel – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1994
Discusses the impact of Marxist geography on course content and textbooks in college geography. Reviews three textbooks. Identifies four persistent problems in the representation of Marxist geography. Suggests a template through which teachers can offer students a more discriminating account of that model. (CFR)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Epistemology, Foreign Countries