This book delivers a definitive contribution to the understanding of Habermas's oeuvre as it applies to education. The authors examine Habermas's contribution to pedagogy, learning and classroom interaction; the relation between education, civil society and the state; forms of democracy, reason and critical thinking; and performativity, audit cultures and accountability.

Section 1: Introduction 1. Communication, Deliberation, Reason: An Introduction to Habermas, Mark Murphy and Ted Fleming Section 2: Key Issues and Debates in Habermas and Education 2. Educational Implications of the Idea of Deliberative Democracy, Tomas Englund 3. Communicative Utopia and Political Re-Education, Marianna Papasthephanou 4. The Concept of Lifeworld and Education in Post-Modernity: A Critical Appraisal of Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action, Sigmund Ongstad 5. Habermas, Eurocentrism and Education: The Indigenous Knowledge Debate, Raymond A. Morrow 6. Forms of Rationality and Public Sector Reform: Habermas, Education and Social Policy, Mark Murphy Section 3: Habermas Applied: Critical Theory And Educational Provision 7. Developing Competence in Collegial Spaces: Exploring Critical Theory and Community Education, John Bamber 8. Condemned to Learn: Habermas, University and the Learning Society, Ted Fleming 9. Learning Democratic Reason: The Adult Education Project of Jürgen Habermas, Stephen Brookfield 10. Citizenship, Discourse Ethics and an Emancipatory Model of Lifelong Learning, Clarence W. Joldersma and Ruth Deakin Crick 11. Practice and Theory of Narrative Inquiry in Education, Carola Conle 12. Educating Social Workers for Lifeworld and System, Barry Cooper 13. Jürgen Habermas, Critical Social Theory and Nursing Education: Implications for Caring in Nursing, Jane SumnerSection 4: Conclusion 14. Taking Aim at the Heart of Education: Critical Theory and the Future of Learning, Ted Fleming and Mark Murphy