Rowena Azada-Palacios

Postcolonial Education and National Identity (eBook, PDF)

An Arendtian Re-imagination

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 2025 Book Award

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350433335
• Artikelnr.: 72252313

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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