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In her renowned and provocative essay,
The Crisis in Education, Hannah Arendt observed that a 'crisis becomes a disaster only when we respond to it with preformed judgements, that is, with prejudices'. Taken as a whole, Arendt's work provides an enduring provocation to think and to make judgements about education and the issues that impact on it, such as political, economic and cultural disruption and uncertainty. Drawing together the leading thinkers on Arendtian ideas and education, this collection explores the role and promise education can have in preparing the future generation to understand, to think about and to act within the world. Concluding the same essay on the crisis in education, Arendt declared education to be the point at which love for the world meets love for those who are newcomers to it. The authors respond to Arendt's call for responsibility and authority in education, providing a leading edge thinking, analysis and agenda setting for public education systems and the world in dark times.
List of contents
Introduction: Hannah Arendt and the Promise of Education in Dark Times,
Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK) and Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) Part I: The Promise of Education 1. Public Education: The Challenge of Educational Authority in a World Without Authority,
Roger Berkowitz (Bard College, USA) 2. Thinking with Arendt: Education and Temporality,
Faisal Baluch (College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, USA)3. Education in and for a World of Difference,
Jon Nixon (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part II: Education and Crisis 4. Identity as Other and the Promise of the Narrative Imagination: An Arendtian Vision for Educational Theorising,
Jo Dillabough (University of Cambridge, UK)5. The Politics of Education Policy,
Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK)6. Hannah Arendt, Education and the Refugee Crisis: Natality, Compensatory Schooling and Assimilation,
Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK) Part III: Education for Love of the World 7. Hannah Arendt and Holocaust Education,
Marie Morgan (University of Winchester, UK) 8. Can You Learn Democracy in a Classroom? John Dewey and Hannah Arendt on the "Paradox of Size",
Aaron Schutz (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA) 9. Thinking in Dark Times: Learning to Repair and Renew Our Common World,
Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University, USA) Conclusion: The Promise of Education Revisited,
Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK) and Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK) References
Index
About the author
Wayne Veck is Reader in Education at Winchester University, UK.Helen M. Gunter is Professor Emerita at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Summary
In her renowned and provocative essay, The Crisis in Education, Hannah Arendt observed that a ‘crisis becomes a disaster only when we respond to it with preformed judgements, that is, with prejudices’. Taken as a whole, Arendt’s work provides an enduring provocation to think and to make judgements about education and the issues that impact on it, such as political, economic and cultural disruption and uncertainty. Drawing together the leading thinkers on Arendtian ideas and education, this collection explores the role and promise education can have in preparing the future generation to understand, to think about and to act within the world. Concluding the same essay on the crisis in education, Arendt declared education to be the point at which love for the world meets love for those who are newcomers to it. The authors respond to Arendt’s call for responsibility and authority in education, providing a leading edge thinking, analysis and agenda setting for public education systems and the world in dark times.
Foreword
A critical, substantive and original contribution to global educational issues and questions, drawing on the thinking of Hannah Arendt.
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The threads of the book are stitched together well by the editors in a concluding chapter, which makes important the notion of action as well as thoughtful research. This is a truly heroic effort.
