Hannah Arendt and education : renewing our common world / Mordechai Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Mordechai, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Arendt, Hannah.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London, [England] : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

Hannah Arendt And Education: Renewing Our Common World is the first book to bring together a collection of essays on Hannah Arendt and education. The contributors contend that Arendt offers a unique perspective, one which enhances the liberal and critical traditions'' call for transforming education so that it can foster the values of democratic citizenship and social justice. They focus on a wide array of Arendtian concepts-such as natality, action, freedom, public space, authority and judgment-which are particularly relevant for education in a democratic society. Teachers, educators, and cit

Contents:

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Paradox of Natality: Teaching in the Midst of Belatedness; 2 Hannah Arendt on Authority: Conservatism in Education Reconsidered; 3 Education for Judgment: An Arendtian Oxymoron?; 4 Contesting Utopianism: Hannah Arendt and the Tensions of Democratic Education; 5 Multicultural Education and Arendtian Conservatism: On Memory, Historical Injury, and Our Sense of the Common; 6 Is Hannah Arendt a Multiculturalist?; 7 Hannah Arendt on Politicizing the University and Other Cliches

8 The Eclipse of Thinking: An Arendtian Critique of Cooperative Learning 9 What and How We Learned from Hannah Arendt: An Exchange of Letters; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-97969-X

1-4294-8782-8