Not to be conflated with systems of accountability, this book examines
responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry. The author argues
that responsibility in its most radical sense is not connected to a
higher authority. Rather, responsibility summons the actor to do the
right thing when no one else is there to announce what is right; it
involves speaking the truth in a world that is increasingly
characterized by organized lying and organized irresponsibility. The
search for responsibility as education is explored through a wide
range of issues including: studying the ways in which the
bureaucratization of the world undermine ethical consciousness;
cultivating the ethical imagination in education which is not only
vital to sustaining democracy, but to counteracting indifference to
crimes against humanity and crimes against the planet; critiquing the
imperial nationalism of a wave of education legislation requiring
American schools to provide instruction on genocides and other mass
atrocities that take place by ‘others’ and ‘abroad’ but not at
‘home’ or by ‘us’; centralizing a curriculum of common sense
in an era marked by a breakdown of common sense and disinformation
narratives; and facing a reality that can never be experienced: the
end of the human world. Reimagining education as an avenue for
cultivating personal responsibility and global justice, this text will
be of interest to students, scholars, and researchers working in
curriculum studies, philosophy of education, educational policy, and
teacher education.
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Traversing Banal and Radical Terrains
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ISBN
9781000846768
Publisert
2023
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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