The Gleam Of Light Moral Perfectionism And Education In Dewey And Emerson Naoko Saito National Endowment For The Humanitiesandrew W Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program Stanley Cavell by Naoko Saito; National Endowment For The Humanities/andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; Stanley Cavell 9780823285259, 0823285251 instant download after payment.

In the name of efficiency, the practice of education has come to be dominated by neoliberal ideology and
procedures of standardization and quantification. Such attempts to make all aspects of practice transparent and subject to systematic accounting lack sensitivity to the invisible and the silent, to something in the human
condition that cannot readily be expressed in an either-or form. Seeking alternatives to such trends, Saito reads
Dewey’s idea of progressive education through the lens of Emersonian moral perfectionism (to borrow a term coined by Stanley Cavell). She elucidates a spiritual and aesthetic dimension to Dewey’s notion of growth, one considerably richer than what Dewey alone presents in his typically scientific terminology.