Allen, Ansgar, author.

The cynical educator / Ansgar Allen.

Leicester : MayFly Books, 2017.

1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations

"Ground down, disenchanted, but committed to education. Unable to quit, yet deploring everything education has become. We suffer a weakened and weakening cynicism. This cynicism exploits the last remaining educational commitments of an otherwise broken workforce, draining that workforce of its final pleasure: Revolt. Our cynicism is reactionary and conditional - exhausting where it might invigorate, rendering complicit, giving safe passage to bad temper - but can be reclaimed. We need more cynicism, not less. With The Cynical Educator a revived, militant Cynicism affronts us. Drawing on a long history of religious denial and philosophical intrigue, it brings our educational bad faith to the surface. It confronts the educated with the fruit of their conceit."-- provided by distributor.

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Education Philosohpy.
Educational change.
School improvement programs.
Enseignement Réforme.

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