基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.
Full Description
Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.
Contents
Prologue: Education and the Question of Being Human 1 Against Learning: Reclaiming a Language for Education in an Age of Learning; Chapter 2: Coming into Presence; Chapter 3: The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common; Chapter 4: How Difficult Should Education Be?; Chapter 5: The Architecture of Education; Chapter 6: Education and the Democratic Person; Epilogue: A Pedagogy of Interruption.
