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The Crisis of Western Education (Paperback)
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The Crisis of Western Education (Paperback)
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This title presents works of Christopher Dawson. ""The Crisis of
Western Education"", originally published in 1961, served as a
capstone of Christopher Dawson's thought on the Western educational
system. Long out of print, the book has now been updated with a new
introduction by Glenn W. Olsen and is included in the ongoing
""Works of Christopher Dawson"" series. In all of his writings,
Dawson masterfully brings various disciplinary perspectives and
historical sources into a complex unity of expression and applies
them to concrete conditions of modern society. Dawson argued that
Western culture had become increasingly defined by a set of
economic and political preoccupations ultimately hostile to its
larger spiritual end. Inevitably, its educational systems also
became increasingly technological and pragmatic, undermining the
long standing emphasis on liberal learning and spiritual reflection
which were hallmarks of the Christian humanism that created it. In
this important work on the Western educational system, Dawson
traces the history of these developments and argues that Western
civilization can only be saved by redirecting its entire
educational system from its increasing vocationalism and
specialization. He insists that the Christian college must be the
cornerstone of such an educational reform. However, he argued that
this redirection would require a much more organic and
comprehensive study of the living Christian tradition than had been
attempted in the past. Dawson had reservations about educational
initiatives that had been developed in response to this crisis of
education. Among them, he expressed doubts about newly emerging
great books programs fearing that they would reduce the great
tradition of a living culture to a set of central texts or great
ideas. In contrast, he insisted that a Christian education had to
be concerned with 'how spiritual forces are transmitted and how
they change culture, often in unexpected ways'. This would require
an understanding of the living and vital character of culture. As
Dawson saw it, 'culture is essentially a network of relations, and
it is only by studying a number of personalities that you can trace
this network'. Dawson offers a diagnosis of modern education and
proposes the retrieval of an organic and living culture which alone
has the power to renew Western culture.
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