A 'Fear' Studies Perspective and Critique: Analyzing English's and Stengel's Progressive Study of Fear and Learning in Education Theory
Date
2011
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In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute
Abstract
The author critiques the progressive approach of two contemporary educational philosophers (English and Stengel) on the topic of fear and learning. Using a postmodern integral approach (i.e., fearanalysis), this article examines the tendency of reductionism, individualism, and psychologism as part of a hegemonoic liberalism and modernism in discourses on fear and learning commonly adopted by educators....
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Keywords
education philosophy, fear, fearanalysis, integral, postmodern
Citation
Fisher, R. M. (2011). A 'Fear' Studies Perspective and Critique: Analyzing English's and Stengel's Progressive Study of Fear and Learning in Education Theory (Technical Paper No.37). Carbondale, IL: In Search of Fearlessness Research Institute.