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Notes towards a new renaissance.(Martin Fitzgerald)(James Franklin)(Alan Barcan)(Book review)
Postmodernism in Education, by Alan Barcan, Martin Fitzgerald, James Franklin and Barry Spurr; Warrane College Monograph No. 11, Warrane College, University of NSW, 2006.
I FIRST CAME FACE TO FACE with postmodernism eight years ago when I was studying for a Diploma of Education in English teaching, and it was a shock. The stifling essay topics seemed to be carefully designed to close off certain avenues of enquiry, giving a glimpse of life under a totalitarian regime where thought and language are everywhere controlled by the dead hand of political theory. But worse than that was the sense that a deliberate, systematic dismantling of the past was taking place ...
- Alan Barcan, Radical Students.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies Ustinoff, Julie September 1, 2002 700+ words
...of contacting the well-respected educational historian Dr Alan Barcan. During the very brief period of our acquaintance, his passion...surrounding Australia's early radical student movement, Alan Barcan reveals the excitement, concerns, aspirations, experiences...
- Slow learners.(Student Radicals: The Old Left at Sydney University)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter October 1, 2002 700+ words
...Old Left at Sydney University, by Alan Barcan; Melbourne University Press, 2002, $59.95. ONLY ALAN BARCAN could have written this book. Not...1956 carries an important article by Alan Barcan on the universities.) This anti...
- Barzun's influence.(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Barcan, Alan June 1, 2007 700+ words
...Philosophy at Sydney on "Politics and the Intellectual", Alan Barcan, Research Scholar at the Australian National University, on...Barzun helpful in discussing problems of secondary education. Alan Barcan, Charlestown, NSW.
- The false Petronius.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Stark, Peter January 1, 2006 700+ words
SIR: In the October 2005 issue Alan Barcan states that I had quoted the false Petronius in an article...he bears me no grudge for my undeserved and fleeting fame. Alan Barcan's search for the truth reminds me of a similar story I read...
- Michael Oakeshott.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Barcan, Alan March 1, 2006 700+ words
...disciplines and the formation of concepts. Both theorists wrote in the 1960s: surely today these ideas are far too ambitious for the majority (not all, but the majority) of students in secondary schools. Alan Barcan, Charlestown, NSW.
- A. Barcan, Radical Students: the Old Left at Sydney University.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society Lewis, D.L. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...is understandable, given the inadequacy of the linear format in which we cram the spherical nature of political opinion. Alan Barcan, an exradical from Sydney University, wrote this book for several reasons. Firstly, he believed the Left traditions needed...
- Conscious non-involvement. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Roberts, Craig M. October 1, 2002 700+ words
SIR: Alan Barcan's essay (July-August 2002) carefully maps out the landscape of student associations and clubs, both political and social...
- Curriculum battles.(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Donnelly, Kevin October 1, 2005 700+ words
...At the same time, as the author, there is a natural desire to want to correct misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Alan Barcan's generally favourable discussion of my book, Why Our Schools are Failing (July-August 2005) contains a number of egregious...
- Oakeshott on education.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Clark, David January 1, 2006 700+ words
SIR: Alan Barcan's letter (December 2005) makes some points about the educational ideas of Michael Oakeshott that are laughably inaccurate...
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