What Is Education?

ISBN-13: 9780748675326 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

A. J. Bartlett; Justin Clemens; Jessica Whyte

Opis

A reconsideration of the philosophical destiny of education

What is education? This volume thinks through this question from a range of perspectives unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with the question of education, it will give you new insights into education: what it is, what it is not, and what is to be done about it.

At a time when education is so important as to be considered an essential human right, yet is under attack from funding cuts, this book will open the thinking on education onto new and important territory.

Spis treści

Introduction. What is Education? A Polemical Question, A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens; 1. Education: not impossible, A. J. Bartlett; 2. Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University, Silvia Federici; 3. Knowledge Enclosure & University Education: Notes from ‘Post-restructured’ Bangladesh, Mushahid Hussain; 4. Beyond the Human State: Bergson, Education, and the Art of Life, Keith Ansell-Pearson; 5. The master and the professor are dead, and I am not feeling well myself, Mladen Dolar; 6. Herod, the Ogre… and Miss Cooper’s rifle: Education as a refuge for childhood and the world, Jorge Larrosa; 7. Parlomurs: A Dialogue on Corruption in Education, Alessandro Russo; 8. When shall we go…?, Judith Balso; Bibliography.