Wealth, values, culture & education : reviving the essentials for equality and sustainability / Juliette E. Torabian.
Torabian, Juliette E., author.
2022
HM821
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Title Wealth, values, culture & education : reviving the essentials for equality and sustainability / Juliette E. Torabian.
Author Torabian, Juliette E., author.
ISBN 9783030928933 (electronic bk.)
3030928934 (electronic bk.)
9783030928926
3030928926
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92893-3
Published Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-92893-3 doi
Call Number HM821
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.09
Summary Culture is non-essential. Higher education is to train economically but not socio-politically active & engaged citizens. Economic wealth is the most important and prominent form of individual and national assets. Freedom is about "choices in having" but not in "ways of being and becoming." I consume; therefore, I am! In this catching book, Torabian offers a voyage to the shifting perceptions and values attached to wealth depicting the socio-political role of education and culture in de/reconstructing such values since the Middle Ages and across different spatial and temporal contexts. Delineating the tenets of the capitalist social contract since the 1970s, Torabian skillfully demonstrates the metamorphosed role and meaning of culture and higher education in the so-called democratic world. In pursuit of a renewed value system and social contract, a reconstruction of wealth and a revival of the essential socio-political role of education and culture in todays world, Torabian sets forth an innovative framework, i.e., the Big Wealth Pie and proposes adapting transgressive education, resistance pedagogy and teaching ignorance. Embracing ethical, political, sociological, and academic roles, this book contributes to the construction of socially just and sustainable societies in this post-pandemic Anthropocene Age. "The book on offer here is fascinating. I do not think it is proper to classify it as philosophy or sociology or comparative education. It is a work sui generis. Its cultural and historical range is extraordinary. Its illustrations are themselves arresting. Its literature is well outside disciplinary conventions and ranges across a number of languages. Mirabile dictu!"--Professor Robert Cowen.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 27, 2022).
Series Diversity and inclusion research.
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1. Introduction: In pursuit of new value system
2. Values, Wealth and Poverty: Tracing a spatial-temporal metamorphosis
3. The capitalist Trojan Horse and its tenets
4. Education and Culture: The instrumentalisation
5. A retour to essentials: Re-constructing wealth and values
6. The Road (not) Taken.

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