Chapter 8 Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/papers/edCT2003.htm. Read the essay by Douglas Kellner entitled "Toward a Critical Theory of Education" and answer the following questions:

1. What critical theory is the author drawing upon to build his critique of education?

2. What is the author trying to accomplish using this approach?

3. What phenomena does the author cite as justification for his approach, and why?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english/3902specialstudies/habermas.html. Read Dr. Julian Murphet's "Lecture on Habermas and the 'crisis of modernity'" and answer the following questions:

1. According to the author, what is modernity?

2. According to the author, what were the major contributions of the critical theorists to the critique of modernity?

3. What relationship does the author suggest exists between Jurgen Habermas's focus and the focus of the other critical theorists?