dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Bagchi, B. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wagter, J.T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-24T17:01:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-24T17:01:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/17094 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper sets out to answer the question what inhabitants of the utopian societies in Thomas More’s humanist Utopia (1516), Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s feminist Herland (1915) and William Morris’s socialist News from Nowhere (1890) have to learn in order to sustain their particular utopian equilibria. Through textual analysis, the utopian ideal - the highest individual potential and the highest potential of society as a whole - is discussed for each text. Consequently, the educational patterns connecting the two potentials are identified. The utopian narratives studied show a common principle in citizenship education: the individual potential is linked to interaction with fellow utopians, giving rise to a social potential. Although varying in form, this social potential is primarily internalised through experiential learning in all three texts. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 509095 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | The Utopian Environment: Educating a Social Potential | |
dc.type.content | Bachelor Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | utopia, education, environment, social potential, citizenship education | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Engelse taal en cultuur | |