...Howard Eiland Walter Benjamin’s theory of education was first produced in conjunction with the theory of experience he developed in the years immediately preceding World War I, the period of his student activism. Integral to the discourse of both learning and experiencing in Benjamin is the idea...

... Plato through Schiller to Nietzsche) is decisively at work in Benjamin’s educational theory from the beginning. The child retains not what is learned by rote but only what is learned in a spirit of play or adventure. At issue, once again, is not an accumulation and application of knowledge...

...Élise Derroitte Modern pedagogy, as distinguished particularly from Enlightenment theories, is characterized by an effort to reconnect the content of education (what is taught) to the particular experience of individuals who learn. From Dilthey to Dewey, the notion of experience ( Erlebnis ) has...

... while promulgating an art of reading. Such historically oriented and textually focused work of opening remains a political-educational imperative. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 language theory Friedrich Nietzsche Walter Benjamin Martin Heidegger References Adorno...

..., with educational theory and practice, remains indispensable. In the Breslau address, Benjamin calls for a new philosophical pedagogy that would provide an arena for the confrontation of youth and cultural values. Out of this encounter was to issue a learning community emancipated from the hierarchies and power...

..., Spanos reflected on his career, contemporary theory, and education: I think that one of the great disasters, as far as the development of theory is concerned, is the annulment of the whole history that pro- duced poststructuralism and the question of what is human...

..., vol. 2 of The Ideology of Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 47; Wim Wenders, The Logic of Images: Essays and Conversations (London: Faber and Faber, 1991), 98. Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang / Chinese Education  111 most devastating expressions...

... education starts with puberty. Prole- tarian education theory demonstrates its superiority by guaranteeing to children the fulfillment of their childhood. There is no need, there- fore, for the realm in which this occurs to be isolated from the realm of class struggles...

...Frank Pasquale Though artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and education now accomplishes diverse tasks, there are two features that tend to unite the information processing behind efforts to substitute it for professionals in these fields: reductionism and functionalism. True believers...

... and the public. During the period of the educational system reform in 1923 and 1924, Liang Qichao repeatedly emphasized the significance for modern education of such theories as Wang Yangming’s “unity of thought and action” and Yan Yuan (Xizhai)’s “practice and achievement.” His goal was to overcome...

... on eigh- teenth- and nineteenth-century­ literature and literary theory. She is currently at work on a book on the rise of mass education, to be called Designing Education, and on a brief history of reading and practical criticism in the Anglo-­American tradition. Patrick Jagoda is assistant...

... . 2020 . “ Theses for Theory in a Time of Crisis .” Public Seminar , March 30 . https://publicseminar.org/essays/theses-for-theory-in-a-time-of-crisis/ . European Association for International Education (EAIE) . 2020 . “ Coping with COVID-19: International Higher Education in Europe .” March...

... examples of social Darwinism in Social Theory: A Historical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). 2. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 217 n. 33. This is a much-revised version...

... from the theory of education” (1994: 93). In this context, the vaunted model of “example” is always limited to the empirically possible and educational “influence” to issues of power. “The life of the educator [Das Leben des Erziehenden], however, does not function indirectly [mittelbar...

... of the political potential of aesthetic modernism. More than a mere theoretical appreciation of the avant-garde, Benjamin’s work represents a sustained attempt to apply modernist methods of production to the practice of theory itself. Benjamin’s experiments carry the expectation that the reception of theory...

...Lindsay Waters In the twentieth century, criticism flourished in the academy in the English language from the 1930s to the 1960s, but gradually a hyperprofessionalized discourse purporting to be criticism took its place. The problem was exacerbated because people misunderstand literary theory...

... University Press . Beaudry Paul Green David Sand Benjamin . 2013 . “ The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skilled and Cognitive Tasks .” Journal of Labor Economics 34 ( S1 ): S199 – S247 . Berg Ivar . 2014 . “ Economics of Education .” In Education and Sociology...

... . Komar Kathleen L. 1995 . “ The State of Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice, 1994 .” World Literature Today 69 , no. 2 : 287 – 92 . Kosar Kevin R. 2011 . “ National Defense Education Act of 1958 .” Federal Education Policy History , June 3 . https...

...: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . English James F. 2012 . The Global Future of English Studies . Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell . Giroux Henry . 2014 . Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education . Chicago : Haymarket Books...

... at the Ministry of Interior on January 14, 2011, when trade unionists and academics gathered to protest for reforming the structures and methodologies of education and research in higher education according to the principles of the revolution. R. A. Judy is professor of critical and cultural...