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Plato's Republic as an Early Study of Media Bias and a Charter for Prosaic Education
Author(s) -
BROWN JENNIFER
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1972.74.3.02a00290
Subject(s) - enculturation , poetry , charter , curriculum , the republic , sociology , literature , the arts , philosophy , pedagogy , art , political science , epistemology , law
Plato's Republic is a document of considerable interest for the student of enculturation processes. From Plato's proposals for educational change and for a new curriculum, and from his reactions against the arts and poetry of traditional Greek culture, we gain perspectives on the nature, strains, and implications of a transition from dominantly oral poetic to literate prose forms of symbolic transmission and education.