Full Description
Using Hannah Arendt's critical 1958 essay 'The Crisis in Education' as the framework through which to think with, against, and beyond contemporary challenges faced by education today, this seminal volume argues for provocative, fundamental, and yet hopeful solutions based in the philosophical educational tradition.
The book posits the contemporary relevance of Arendt's essay, written in the wake of the destruction and societal upheaval caused by World War II, in tackling modern day educational crises such as the climate crisis, authoritarian threats to democracy, and neoliberal ideals of competitiveness. Presenting a Nordic-led, yet internationally varied group of contributors comprising some of the most prominent, contemporary philosophers of education - including leading Arendt scholars - chapters offer alternatives to the instrumentalization of education, suggesting radical and constructive critiques based on traditions not usually discussed within educational research internationally. Predominantly theoretical in approach, chapters are unique in their dialogic nature: each contain short, nuanced responses from academics demonstrating how to think with, and beyond, the chapter's themes, deepening the readers' understanding, encouraging reflection, and cultivating debate around educational authority.
Ultimately using Arendt's essay as a springboard for interdisciplinary, philosophical discussions on current educational crises, this book will be of use to scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of the philosophy of education, education theory, and critical thinking more broadly.
Contents
1. From speech to text - introducing a dialogue Part 1: Exploring Arendt's work - crises and responsibility 2. Arendt - a thinker of crises? The destruction of the world and the phenomenon of superfluity 3. Crisis in education, belonging and the world A. Crisis, education and political judgment B. Understanding, responsibility and the love of the world 4. Bildung between becoming and being: An educational triangle of Bildung, natality and responsibility A. World-care and education B. The educational triangle and the biological community 5. A short essay on educational responsibility: A reflection on the relevance of a distinction Part 2: Crises in Education 6. What to do when facing a crisis? ARTE - A Philosophical Compass A. Practising Education in Crisis B. A Compass for Navigating the Discomforts of the Crises in Education 7. Arendt, education, and civil disobedience: A childist Rancièrian response A. Learning from Guillemin: Dissent, disobedience and the right to be public B. Political children revisited 8. Crisis and knowledge A. Practical wisdom and the limits of knowledge B. Phronesis matters in times of crises 9. Absent bodies and the politics of touch: Revisiting experiences with digital education during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond A. Digitalization as a mechanism of nature and culture - for better or worse B. Neurotypicality and the Pedagogical 'We' 10. Education and other useless ideas A. Educating humanity B. The existential importance of the teacher's small gesture Afterword
