Metaphysics, Dialectical Materialism, Maxine Greene, And Education

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ID14818829
AuthorsDonald Vandenberg (The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year1992
Pages107-124
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhenomenology + Pedagogy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0820-9189 • E-ISSN: 0820-9189
PublisherUniversity of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.29173/pandp14902
OpenAlexW1810317825
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Some recent attempts made in the educational literature to revive metaphysics, to explicate dialectics, and to claim that Maxine Greene 's (1988) The Dialectic of Freedom presupposes a Deweyan metaphysics have either ignored, misjudged, or underestimated the value of her contribution to the study of education. A critical examination of the questions raised will try to show that their resolution lies in a dialecti cal materialism similar to the view embodied in Greene's writings. An explication of her actual "metaphysics" will illuminate dialectics and lead to a fuller statement of the nature of education when it is viewed dialectically. This will consider morality and curriculum dialectically to complement Greene's pedagogy. The dialectical perspective might help overcome the subjectivism to which phenomenological research in edu cation is exposed. It might also enable students to find the significance in living desired by the authors who would resuscitate metaphysics

Aesthetics · Dialectic · Dialectical materialism · Epistemology · Materialism · Metaphysics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

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