Unlocking the world : education in an ethic of hospitality / Claudia W. Ruitenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruitenberg, Claudia, author.

Series:

Interventions series : education, philosophy, and culture.

Interventions series : education, philosophy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School environment.

Teacher-student relationships.

Education--Moral and ethical aspects.

Education.

Hospitality.

Physical Description:

xiv, 178 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder ; London : Paradigm Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

Unlocking the World proposes hospitality as a guiding ethic for education. Based on the work of Jacques Derrida, it suggests that giving place to children and newcomers is at the heart of education. The primary responsibility of the "host" is not to assimilate newcomers into tradition but rather to create or leave a place where they may arrive. Hospitality as a guiding ethic for education is discussed in its many facets, including the decentered conception of subjectivity on which it relies, the way it casts the relation between teacher and student, and its conception of curriculum as an inheritance that asks for a critical reception. The book examines the relation between an ethic of hospitality and the educational contexts in which it would guide practice. Since these contexts are marked by gender, culture, and language, it asks how such differences affect enactments of hospitality. Since hospitality typically involves a power difference between host and guest, the book addresses how an ethic of hospitality accounts for power, whether it is appropriate for educational contexts marked by colonialism, and how it might guide education aimed at social justice. Book jacket.

Contents:

Unlocking the world : an introduction

An ethic of hospitality

The gender and culture of hospitality

Curriculum and inheritance

Hospitable pedagogy

Hospitality and politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612057804

1612057802

OCLC:

904035601