New education: searching for Utopia

Joaquim Machado de Araújo*, Alberto Filipe Araújo, Agostinho Leite D'Almeida

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Abstract

In this chapter the authors associate the ideas of the ideal city as a place of happiness for the living, on the basis of the universality of freedom, equality and fraternity, and education as an essential device to build it. In this perspective, it highlights the utopian conception that permeates the pedagogical rationality of the New Education movement, explains the basic principles and concepts that inspired the “new schools,” problematizes the radicality of its rupture within the history of pedagogical ideas and assumes and adopts from John Dewey that a new theory and practice of emancipatory education should develop the purposes, methods and subject matter of study on the basis of a theory of experience and its educational potential.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRethinking democracy for post-Utopian worlds
Subtitle of host publicationalternative political projects after the Sovereign state
EditorsJorge León Casero, Julia Urabayen
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan Ltd.
Pages47-62
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9783031534911
ISBN (Print)9783031534904 , 9783031534935
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2024

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Utopianism
VolumePart F2956
ISSN (Print)2946-4471
ISSN (Electronic)2946-448X

Keywords

  • Emancipatory education
  • New Education
  • Pedagogical idea
  • Utopia

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