Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School
Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: G; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 286.
Drawing on Cornel West's prophetic revision of American pragmatism and fictional cases of teaching from Toni Morrison's Beloved, Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School develops an alternative conception of the role of the teacher for a contemporary educational milieu marked by increasing religious diversity and marred by controversy over the appropriate relationship between religion and education. Jeffrey Ayala Milligan offers a critical analysis of traditional conceptions of the teacher's role as 'centers that cannot hold' in the midst of ongoing cultural debates between religious critics of public education and secular suspicions of religious ideas in the public school. ... Read more
Drawing on Cornel West's prophetic revision of American pragmatism and fictional cases of teaching from Toni Morrison's Beloved, Teaching at the Crossroads of Faith and School develops an alternative conception of the role of the teacher for a contemporary educational milieu marked by increasing religious diversity and marred by controversy over the appropriate relationship between religion and education. Jeffrey Ayala Milligan offers a critical analysis of traditional conceptions of the teacher's role as 'centers that cannot hold' in the midst of ongoing cultural debates between religious critics of public education and secular suspicions of religious ideas in the public school. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761824497
SKU
V9780761824497
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About Jeffrey Ayala Milligan
Jeffrey Ayala Milligan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University.
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