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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Description: Ramsey McGlazer's Old Schools: Moderï»żnism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (Fordham University Press, 2020), traces the ways in which a group of modernist cultural practitioners (thinkers, politicians, artists, poets, novelists, and filmmakers) across varied linguistic and cultural contexts ((Italian, English, Irish, and Brazilian) resisted certain notions of education perceived as âprogressiveâ. At the heart of this remarkable study, pulses a nexus of issues that are of interest to anyone teaching anything anywhere: What is education? How does it differ from âinstructionâ? What is education for? (if anything) What does it mean to ask the question âwhat is education forâ? Who is edu...