Skip to content

 Free Shipping Promo Code: TCP2023 (click for restrictions) 

Current Promos

 Free Shipping Promo Code: TCP2023 (click for restrictions) 

Cart
Teachers College Press
  • Blog
  • Permissions
  • Catalogs
  • Series
  • Contact
  • New Releases
  • Browse Books
  • Authors
  • Upcoming Events
  • Resources
  • About
  • New Releases
  • Browse Books
  • Authors
  • Upcoming Events
  • Resources
    • For Customers
    • For Authors
    • For Booksellers
    • For Librarians
  • About
    • Our Staff
  • Blog
  • Permissions
  • Catalogs
  • Series
    • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies Series
    • Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    • Early Childhood Education Series
    • International Perspectives on Education Reform Series
    • Language and Literacy Series
    • Multicultural Education Series
    • Practitioner Inquiry Series
    • Research and Practice in Social Studies Series
    • School : Questions
    • Spaces In-between Series
    • STEM for Our Youngest Learners Series
    • Teaching for Social Justice Series
    • Technology, Education—Connections
    • Visions of Practice Series
  • Contact
‹ Browse Books

Reading Pragmatism

Cleo H. Cherryholmes

Publication Date: April 9, 1999

Pages: 168

Series: Advances in Contemporary Educational Thought Series

Available Formats
HARDCOVER
ISBN: 9780807738474
$52.00
Reading Pragmatism 9780807738474
Google Preview
  • Description
  • Author
  • Reviews

Description+

In the Introduction to Reading Pragmatism, Cleo Cherryholmes writes, “Pragmatism is a discourse that attempts to bridge where we are with where we might end up. The future, the other unknown side of this bridge, can certainly be forbidding….The temptation is to look backward. Pragmatism resists this siren’s song by accepting the challenge to look ahead.”

But within his own book, Cherryholmes does both—look back and look ahead—with an eye toward the rethinking of aesthetics of ordinary experiences and how it is shaped by power and knowledge. He traces pragmatism through discussions of such varied proponents of the philosophy as Charles Sanders Pierce, William James, John Dewey, W. V. O. Quine, and Donald Davidson, and applies a Foucauldian conception of power and knowledge to his readings of the texts.

This insightful volume provides both a useful context for understanding educational discourse through a pragmatist lens, and a unique view of the interplay of aesthetics, knowledge, and power.

Author+

Cleo H. Cherryholmes is a Professor in the Department of Education at Michigan State University and the author of Power and Criticism: Poststructural Investigations in Education.

Reviews+

“Is ‘pragmatism,’ as Richard Rorty once suggested, ‘a vague, ambiguous, and overworked word’? Perhaps, but in Cherryholmes’ hands it is refashioned into a postmodern, critical, feminist tool for analyzing educational practices. After Reading Pragmatism, one appreciates anew why, also in Rorty’s words, ‘(pragmatism) names the chief glory of our country’s intellectual tradition.’”
Bill Pinar, Louisiana State University.

“This book explores, explains, and exposits an important stance toward contemporary educational thought that truly can help us advance in new ways to see old ideas and to find comfort in the uncomfortable intellectual climate of today and tomorrow.”
From the Foreword by Jonas F. Soltis, Series Editor

$52.00

Professors: Request an Exam Copy

Print copies available for US orders only. For orders outside the US, see our international distributors.

Books In This Series
The Challenge to Care in Schools
The Challenge to Care in Schools
Community, Diversity, and Conflict Among Schoolteachers
Community, Diversity, and Conflict Among Schoolteachers
Sign Up & Save!

Join our e-newsletter to stay current with voices from the field and receive discounts on all new releases.


Sign Up ›
Teachers College Press

Administrative Office
1234 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212) 678-3929

Customer Service
phone 1-800-575-6566
tcporders@presswarehouse.com

Copyright 2023 Teachers College Press|
Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy | Sitemap | Return Policy | Contact
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Youtube