Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future

✍ Scribed by Gert J. J. Biesta

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Series: Interventions
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many educational practices are based upon ideas about what it means to be human. Thus education is conceived as the production of particular subjectivities and identities such as the rational person, the autonomous individual, or the democratic citizen. Beyond Learning asks what might happen to the ways in which we educate if we treat the question as to what it means to be human as a radically open question; a question that can only be answered by engaging in education rather than as a question that needs to be answered before we can educate. The book provides a different way to understand and approach education, one that focuses on the ways in which human beings come into the world as unique individuals through responsible responses to what and who is other and different. Beyond Learning raises important questions about pedagogy, community and educational responsibility, and helps educators of children and adults alike to understand what a commitment to a truly democratic education entails.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Education and the Question of Being Human
1 Against Learning: Reclaiming a Language for Education in an Age of Learning
The New Language of Learning
Against Learning?
From Learning to Education: What Constitutes an Educational Relationship?
Trust (without Ground)
(Transcendental) Violence
Responsibility (without Knowledge)
For Education
2 Coming into Presence: Education after the Death of Subject
The Subject of Education
The End of Man
Who Comes after the Subject?
The Virtual Reality of Objective Space
The Space of Architecture: Disjunctive Space
The Space of the Other: Intersubjective Space
The Space of Responsibility: Ethical Space
Conclusion
3 The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common: Education and the Language of Responsibility
Modern Society: The Modern Community
The Postmodern Stranger
The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
The Language of Responsibility
The Rational Community and the "Other" Community
The Community of Education
Conclusion
4 How Difficult Should Education Be?
Politics and the Political Community
Hannah Arendt and the Difficulty of Politics
The Predicament of Action
Freedom, Action, and Plurality
The Space Where Freedom Can Appear
Visiting
How Difficult Should Education Be?
Note
5 The Architecture of Education: Creating a Worldly Space
Education and the Tradition of Bildung
Where Are We, Today?
Bildung: Creating a Worldly Space
Building: Creating a Worldly Space
Conclusion: The Paradox of Bildung/Building
6 Education and the Democratic Person
Democracy and Education Revisited
Defining Democracy
Education for Democracy
Education through Democracy
Democracy as a Problem for Education?
Immanuel Kant: An Individualistic Conception of the Democratic Person
John Dewey: A Social Conception of the Democratic Person
Hannah Arendt: A Political Conception of the Democratic Person
Education and the Democratic Person
Three Questions for Democratic Education
Conclusion
Epilogue: A Pedagogy of Interruption
Bibliography
Index
About the Author