Critically Enlightened Romantic Values and English Pedagogy: A Response to Peter Medway  

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Stevens, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1 (2011), page 45-56.
Topik: Romanticism; critical pedagogy; Enlightenment; values
Fulltext: Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2011, 45–56.pdf (100.28KB)

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In this response to Peter Medway’s paper, ‘English and Enlightenment’ (Changing English 17:1, 2010), I take issue with little of what he so lucidly writes, except his implicit and occasionally explicit denunciation of Romanticism as the proper basis of English pedagogy. I am concerned in this paper to emphasise the positive aspects of Romanticism in giving a vivid flavour to experience – surely the foundation of any humane values – whilst simultaneously attempting to reposition Romanticism in the direction of Critical Pedagogy. In this venture, I draw especially on William Blake, the subject of a previous exploration in this journal (Stevens, Changing English 7:1, 2000), and Paulo Freire.

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