Hannah Arendt on Educational Thinking and Practice in Dark Times: Education for a World in Crisis

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In her renowned and provocative essay, The Crisis in Education, Hannah Arendt observed that a ‘crisis becomes a disaster only when we respond to it with preformed judgements, that is, with prejudices’. Taken as a whole, Arendt’s work provides an enduring provocation to think and to make judgements about education and the issues that impact on it, such as political, economic and cultural disruption and uncertainty. Drawing together the leading thinkers on Arendtian ideas and education, this collection explores the role and promise education can have in preparing the future generation to understand, to think about and to act within the world. Concluding the same essay on the crisis in education, Arendt declared education to be the point at which love for the world meets love for those who are newcomers to it. The authors respond to Arendt’s call for responsibility and authority in education, providing a leading edge thinking, analysis and agenda setting for public education systems and the world in dark times. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Author Biographies A Note on Referencing Arendt’s Publications Introduction: Hannah Arendt and the Promise of Education in Dark Times Introduction Addressing a Crisis of Education Sitting at a Table with Arendt: Our Approach The Promise of Education through and beyond Crisis Understanding the Crisis in Education, Understanding Education in Times of Crisis Renewing Educational Thinking for a World in Dark Times Thoughtful Educational Research in Dark Times Part 1: The Promise of Education Chapter 1: Public Education: The Challenge of Educational Authority in a World without Authority Introduction Education’s Double Aspect Education and the Crisis of Authority The Revolutionary Child and the Private Realm Chapter 2: Thinking with Arendt: Education and Temporality Introduction Pearl Diving with Arendt Education as the ‘between’ Conclusion Chapter 3: Arendt and ‘Worldliness’: Education in and for a World of Difference Introduction Dark Times Reaffirming the polis Eichmann and Heidegger ‘Enlargement of Mind’ A World of Difference Conclusion Part 2: Education and Crisis Chapter 4: Identity as Other and the Promise of the Narrative Imagination in Educational Theorizing: Arendt and Ricoeur Introduction Temporality, Narrativization and Memory Work The Implications of Arendt and Ricoeur for Education Transcending Identity: Reviving the Self–Other Relationship through Memory and History Reading Social Recognition as Political Pedagogy Chapter 5: Thinking Politically with Arendt: Depoliticized Privatism and Education Policy Introduction Crisis in Education? Crisis in Thinking Politically? Chapter 6: Hannah Arendt, Education and the Refugee Crisis: Natality, Compensatory Education and Assimilation Introduction Natality and the Education of Displaced Children Beyond Assimilation and Loneliness: Enrooting Displaced Children in the World Conclusion Part 3: Education for Love of the World Chapter 7: Hannah Arendt and ‘Holocaust Education’: Rethinking the Political Educationally Introduction The Educational, the Political and the Threat of Totality ‘Holocaust Education’ ‘Holocaust Education’ in Arendt Totalitarianism and the Vulnerability of the Human Condition The Freedom to Teach and Concluding Thoughts Chapter 8: Can you Learn Democracy in a Classroom? John Dewey and Hannah Arendt on the ‘Paradox of Size’ Introduction The Tensions of Collaboration Democracy and the Problem of Scale Hannah Arendt’s Solution: The Council Movements Conclusion Chapter 9: Thinking in Dark Times: Learning to Repair and Renew Our Common World Introduction Conserving Natality in the Conservatory of Thinking Education as Formation of a Thinker From Thinking to World-Building Teaching What the World Is like versus Teaching the Art of Living Cultivating amor mundi: The Original Educational Imperative Conclusion: The Promise of Education Revisited Introduction The promise of Education – Endangered The Promise of Education – Researched The Promise of Education – Questioned The Promise of Education – Action References Indices Arendt, key terms Arendt, named publications General index