Hannah Arendt And Education

AESA Critics Choice Award Winner

This book focuses on four different Arendtian concepts that have serious implications for a number of the debates being waged regarding education in a democratic society. It addresses the question of whether Hannah Arendt's ideas have any significance for the advocates of multicultural education.Hannah Arendt And Education: Renewing Our Common World is the first book to bring together a collection of essays on Hannah Arendt and education. The contributors contend that Arendt offers a unique perspective, one which enhances the liberal and critical traditions' call for transforming education so that it can foster the values of democratic citizenship and social justice. They focus on a wide array of Arendtian concepts- such as natality, action, freedom, public space, authority and judgment- which are particularly relevant for education in a democratic society. Teachers, educators, and citizens in general who are interested in democratic or civic education would benefit from reading this book.