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  2. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity - Wikipedia

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    The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures (German: Der Philosophische Diskurs der Moderne: Zwölf Vorlesungen) is a 1985 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas, in which the author reconstructs and deals in depth with a number of philosophical approaches to the critique of modern reason and the Enlightenment "project" since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Friedrich ...

  3. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    One common conception of modernity is the condition of Western history since the mid-15th century, or roughly the European development of movable type [68] and the printing press. [69] In this context the modern society is said to develop over many periods, and to be influenced by important events that represent breaks in the continuity. [70 ...

  4. Modernization theory - Wikipedia

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    A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415081863. Wagner, Peter (2001). Theorizing Modernity. Inescapability and Attainability in Social Theory. London: SAGE. ISBN 978-0761951476. Wagner, Peter (2008). Modernity as Experience and Interpretation: A New Sociology of Modernity. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456 ...

  5. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    Hispanic dropout rates are among the highest and Hispanic education achievement levels are among the lowest of any minority. This problem is exacerbated by a modern US society in which higher levels of educational achievement are increasingly considered prerequisites for employment, contributing to a higher than average unemployment rate among

  6. Humboldtian model of higher education - Wikipedia

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    Humboldt's model was based on two ideas of the Enlightenment: the individual and the world citizen.Humboldt believed that the university (and education in general, as in the Prussian education system) should enable students to become autonomous individuals and world citizens by developing their own powers of reasoning in an environment of academic freedom.

  7. File:Jewish literature and modern education.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Jewish literature and modern education, or: the use and misuse of the Bible in the schoolroom, being two lectures delivered before the Sunday Lecture Society, March 26th and April 2d 1871 Items portrayed in this file

  8. Education - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... John Locke's book Some Thoughts Concerning Education from 1693 is a ... Starting in the early modern period ...

  9. John Taylor Gatto - Wikipedia

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    John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.