The possibility/impossibility of a new critical language in education / / Ilan Gur-Ze'ev.

• Superior document: Educational Futures
• VerfasserIn: Gur-Zeʼev, Ilan,
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Educational futures.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The critique of Critical Pedagogy—in its current various trends and paths teaches me not only the shortcomings of various versions of Critical Pedagogy. No less important, it offers an invitation to a reflection on the limitations, costs, and open horizons of “critique” itself. It is an invitation to transcend “critique” as such. But what alternative do we have, and from where or with what ears might we listen to the music of the new call? What is it that awaits us outside the critical tradition that in an unproblematic manner we could use, internalize, or surrender ourselves to? Such questions reintroduce us to Utopia. They reintroduce us to the Utopia of the possibility of happiness of the kind that is neither made possible nor advocated by self-abandonment and enslavement/destruction of the otherness of the Other and the “I”. This book manifests a refusal to abandon Critical Theory’s telos; it offers no “solutions”, “victories of the oppressed”, and “emancipation”, neither does it promise “peace” and unproblematic “consensus”. On the contrary: all the eternal open, Diasporic individual can hope for is worthy Diasporic Love of Life, creativity, mature forms of togetherness, and eternal nomadism as a manifestation of co-poiesis.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Toward a New Critical Language in Education (Introduction) / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Diaspora Today / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Conflicting Trends in Critical Theory and Diasporic Counter-Education Today / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Improvisation, Violence and Peace Education / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- The New Anti-Semitism—Toward Educational Challenges / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- New Anti-Semitism as the Meta-Narrative of the New Progressive Thinking and Critical Pedagogy Today / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Peter Mclaren -- The Possibility of a New Critical Language from the Sources of Jewish Negative Theology / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Jonathan Boyarin -- Diaspora, Philosophy And Counter-Education in Face of Post-Colonial Reality / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Cornel West -- Critical Theory and Diasporic Philosophy in Historical Perspective / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev and Martin Jay -- Toward a New Critical Language in Education / Nigel Tubbs -- Education in the World of Diasporas / Zygmunt Bauman -- The Narrative Turn and the Poetics of Resistance—Toward a New Language for Critical Educational Studies / Michael A. Peters and Tina A. C. Besley -- The Idea of Critical E-ducational Research—E-ducating the Gaze and Inviting to go Walking / Jan Masschelein -- D is for Democracy—Critical Education between Inclusion and Interruption / Gert Biesta -- Critical Education and the Inquiry into the Faculty of Consciousness / Anat Rimon-Or -- Globalization, Democratic Education (Bildung), and the Crisis of Democracy / Heinz Sünker -- Education for the Market and Democracy—an Indissoluble Tension? / Klas Roth -- Is Critical Education Still Possible in UK Universities? / Bob Brecher -- School Shootings, Violence, and the Reconstruction of Education—some Proposals / Douglas Kellner -- Criticism of Critical Pedagogy—on the Near-Impossibility of Self-Criticism / Beatrice Dike and John Colbeck -- As Heard in Silence—Erich Fromm, Listening and To-Be-Heard in Education / Olli-Pekka Moisio -- Toward a New Dialogical Language in Education / Arie Kizel -- Is a New Critical Language in Education Still Possible Nowadays? / Raquel de Almeida Moraes -- Author Index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev -- Subject Index / Ilan Gur-Ze’ev.