Scientism and Education: Empirical Research as Neo-Liberal Ideology

by Emery J. Hyslop-Margison, M. Ayaz Naseem, Ayaz Naseem

Book Overview

We presently live in an era dominated by scientism, an ideology that believes that science (and its rationalist foundation in modern epistemology) has an undeniable primacy over all other ways of seeing and understanding life and the world, including more humanistic, mythical, spiritual, and artistic interpretations. In being critical of scientism as I am, I am not against science per se: modern science and its ways of understanding and knowing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048176972
• ISBN13: 9789048176977
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"