Hannah Arendt And Education: Renewing Our Common World

by Mordechai Gordon

Overview

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 citizens in general who are interested in democratic or civic education would benefit from reading this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813366326
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	11/19/2001
Series:	Edge Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mordechai Gordon is a Professor of education in the School of Education at Quinnipiac University. His areas of specialization are foundations of education, humor and teacher education. He is author of Ten Common Myths in American Education (Holistic Education Press, 2005) and the editor of Reclaiming Dissent: Civics Education for the 21st Century, winner of the 2009 AESA Critics Choice Award. Dr. Gordon has published numerous articles in scholarly journals such as Educational Theory, Journal of Teacher Education, Oxford Review of Education and Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice.

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — The Paradox of Natality: Teaching in the Midst of Belatedness — Hannah Arendt on Authority: Conservatism in Education Reconsidered — Education for Judgment: An Arendtian Oxymoron? — Contesting Utopianism: Hannah Arendt and the Tensions of Democratic Education — Multicultural Education and Arendtian Conservatism: On Memory, Historical Injury, and Our Sense of the Common — Is Hannah Arendt a Multiculturalist? — Hannah Arendt on Politicizing the University and Other Clichés — The Eclipse of Thinking: An Arendtian Critique of Cooperative Learning — What and How We Learned from Hannah Arendt: An Exchange of Letters