Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context, while also critiquing the states role in supporting this educational focus.
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context, while also critiquing the states role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.
Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating educations role as a nonpartisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.
Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.
Introduction: Education and the State - Between Past and Future
Part I: Education and the state
Chapter
1. Uncovering education as a practice in its own right
Chapter
2. An optimistic anarchists guide to education and the state
Chapter
3. Education, ideology and critical thinking
Chapter
4. Educational dimension of acts of political forgiveness
Part II: Balancing the purposes of schooling
Chapter
5. Becoming, knowing, and governing oneself in Erasmuss educational
theory and practice
Chapter
6. Competition in education from the perspective of liberalism and
liberal education
Chapter
7. Education and democracy nexus: Social media as a space of
formation of a sense of responsibility for oneself and for others among young
people
Chapter
8. Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism
Part III: The Future of education
Chapter
9. Pedagogy, learning and becoming oneself
Chapter
10. The eclipse of the liberal-democratic state and the future of
education
Chapter
11. Reforming the university: considering Niklas Luhmann's remarks
Chapter
12. Doctoral education, the state, and public goods in a changing
world
Conclusion
Katarzyna Wroska is Associate Professor in Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Education, Poland.
Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK.
