Brosio, Richard

"Staying Alive": Intellectual and Spiritual Sustenance on the Journey for Critical Foundations Scholars-Teachers

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association (November 18, 1994).

«This paper is a description and discussion of the author, a critical Social Foundations scholar-teacher, and the...sources that sustain his work. Opening paragraphs describe his family background in the Piedmont province of northern Italy, the Turin (Italy) working class and their attitudes toward work. The scholar-teacher argues that these antecedents give rise to his own commitment to the democratic principle that seeks to make private power answerable to the public good. Further paragraphs discuss the ideas and influence on the scholar-teacher of Cesare Pavese, Albert Camus, Nikos Kazantzakis, Antonio Gramsci, and Karl Marx. A later section describes the scholar-teacher's scholarly career in the Social Foundations of Education....».

Language	eng
Names	[author] Brosio, Richard
Subjects	Educazione (Pedagogia) Torino Kazantzakis, Nikos Marx, Karl Pavese, Cesare Education Turin Kazantzakis, Nikos Marx, Karl Pavese, Cesare