The Task of Post-Contemporary Education: Essays in Behalf of a Human Future

by Kenneth Dean Benne

Book Overview

In this anthology of his work spanning the past 20 years, Dr Benne considers the place of a reoriented education and re-education in ameliorating today's crises. For Benne, the term crisis does not refer to an unfortunate emergency, a temporary upset of established practices and aspirations to which life will return after the emergency has been handled. Rather crisis denotes a turning point in human history, an axial period marked by the crumbling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807730122
• ISBN13: 9780807730126
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 232 Pages