Full Description
This book proposes some insights and ideas into how education might be humanized. The chapters inform, provoke, and guide further inquiries into imagining and actualizing human education. It presents the view that education should be primarily understood as human education, which offers universal good for the entire planet. It centres around the significant values that make life, in a holistic sense, meaningful, worthwhile, and socially just. It discusses the fundamental idea that human education is the key to peace, individual and social freedoms, social justice and harmony, fraternity and happiness all over the world, and how educational ideals and methods must be reconsidered to achieve this end.
This book originates from an international conference and round-table, "Human Education in the 3rd Millennium," in July 2019 in Dharamsala, India.
Contents
Preface.- Introduction.- Memorandum.- Section I Being human.- 1 Heart education for a happy life.- 2 Three Sacred Enterprises: Human Creations that must be Preserved and Strengthened.- 3 The meaning of 'Human education' for the modern world.- 4 Towards a post-human education for the twenty-first century.- 5 (Non-) Human Education in the Capitalocene.- Section II Educational policy.- 6 Education Policy in the Time of Climate Emergency and Global Pandemic.- 7 Challenges to Educational Policy: A Philosophical View.- 8 Re-humanising Education Policies.- Section III Democracy.- 9 Exploring a Canvas for Coexistence: A Role for Education in India.- 10 Democratic Education and Epistemic Justice.- Section IV Education.- 11 The Moral Education Needed Today.- 12 Rethinking Education.- 13 Education and the political role of an errant, loving and childlike questioning.
