Hannah Spector

In Search of Responsibility as Education (eBook, PDF)

Traversing Banal and Radical Terrains

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Not to be conflated with systems of accountability, this book examines responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry. The author argues that responsibility in its most radical sense is not connected to a higher authority. Rather, responsibility summons the actor to do the right thing when no one else is there to announce what is right; it involves speaking the truth in a world that is increasingly characterized by organized lying and organized irresponsibility.

The search for responsibility as education is explored through a wide range of issues including: studying the ways in which the bureaucratization of the world undermine ethical consciousness; cultivating the ethical imagination in education which is not only vital to sustaining democracy, but to counteracting indifference to crimes against humanity and crimes against the planet; critiquing the imperial nationalism of a wave of education legislation requiring American schools to provide instruction on genocides and other mass atrocities that take place by 'others' and 'abroad' but not at 'home' or by 'us'; centralizing a curriculum of common sense in an era marked by a breakdown of common sense and disinformation narratives; and facing a reality that can never be experienced: the end of the human world.

Reimagining education as an avenue for cultivating personal responsibility and global justice, this text will be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers working in curriculum studies, philosophy of education, educational policy, and teacher education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000860474
• Artikelnr.: 67250461

Autorenporträt

Hannah Spector is Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University, The Capital College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Meanings of Responsibility in Context 1. Bureaucracy,
Responsibility, and Education 2. The Imagination as Teacher 3.
Exceptionally American Visions: On Human Rights and Genocide Education 4.
Curriculum of Common Sense in Times of Plague 5. A Responsibility Like No
Other Epilogue to Postscript: Mortality: "The Miracle that Saves the
World"?