Postcolonial Education and National Identity - An Arendtian Re-imagination

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.>

List of 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

About the author

Rowena Azada-Palacios is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

Product details

• Authors: Rowena Azada-Palacios
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781350433311
• ISBN: 978-1-350-43331-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Moral & social purpose of education