Postcolonial Education and National Identity : An Arendtian Re-Imagination / Rowena Azada-Palacios.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azada-Palacios, Rowena, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education.

Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Recognizing the strategic role that national identities play in post-colonial struggles for justice, this book conceptualizes a new approach to teaching national identity that, following Hannah Arendt, emphasizes children's ability to renew culture. The book uses the Philippine colonial experience as a case study, and includes a genealogy of Hannah Arendt's concept of the 'social', including an analysis of how she used this idea to explore the role that schools play within the political community. Azada-Palacios problematizes the way that national identity is valued as an educational goal in Philippine schools and the way that Philippine citizenship education continues to aspire towards a homogeneity of culture. Through an examination of colonial-era documents, she traces this characteristic of colonial history, and identifies this aspiration as an unreflective perpetuation of American colonial educational policy that has not been sufficiently criticized.

Contents:

Series Editor's Foreword Introduction 1. The Ideological Roots of Philippine Identity-Building in Schools 2. Postcolonial Foundations for an Education for National Identity 3. Cultural Belonging in Arendt's Thought: Her Concept of the 'Social' 4. Educational Tensions and the Liminality of the School 5. Arendt's Educational Thought: Limitations and Applications 6. Classrooms as Cultural Playgrounds 7. 'Amor Mundi' and the Danger of Insularity Conclusion References Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350476325

1350476323

9781350433335

1350433330

9781350433328

1350433322

OCLC:

1463572922