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Description:: This dissertation explores critiques of mass education alongside the rise of the research university as they appear in the early writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and Walter Benjamin. More specifically, it traces the development of a theory of (un)learning that inserts distance into the pedagogical relation to produce a discretized educational...
Keyword:: Bildung, Nietzsche, Education, Benjamin, Youth Movement, and Pathos of Distance
Subject:: German literature and Philosophy
Creator:: Laport, Theodore F.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1013555 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16750

Description:: This dissertation offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s notion of teaching (didaskalia). In Part I, I defend my claim that we can find in Aristotle’s works a conception of teaching, which is a crucial yet under-explored part of his theory of education. In Part II, I use this interpretation to...
Keyword:: Teaching, Education, Aristotle, and Moral Education
Subject:: Philosophy
Creator:: Cochran, William Bruce McBean
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15114 and etdadmin_upload_743644

Description:: During the 1870s and 1880s, state governments in the former slaveholding South established eleven public institutions for black higher learning. Given the volatile, impoverished, often repressive climate of the region, how did black political and educational leaders mobilize to expand state support for black higher education? Furthermore, how did they...
Keyword:: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, African American, Education, Higher education, and Southern states
Subject:: American history, Black history, and Education history
Creator:: Soares, Leigh Alexandra
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662076 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14626

Description:: This thesis is organized into three essays, each with particular insights involving public policy and family formation: In the ﬁrst essay, I address the well-documented correlation between the prestige of the university and the labor market income of its graduates by investigating whether a possible medium for this eﬀect is...
Keyword:: College Major, Education, Marriage, Financial Aid, and Divorce
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Benjamin Walter Bohdan Passty
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/18/2018
Date Modified:: 09/18/2018
Date Created:: 2008-07-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Science education reform emphasizes learning science through inquiry as a way to engage students in the processes of science at the same time that they learn scientific concepts. However, inquiry involves practices that are challenging for students because they have underlying norms with which students may be unfamiliar. We therefore...
Keyword:: Education
Subject:: Education and Social Policy - Learning Sciences
Creator:: Carrie Teh-Li Tzou
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/10/2018
Date Modified:: 09/10/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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