Obstinate education : : reconnecting school and society / / by Gert Biesta.

• Superior document: Educational Futures; volume72
• VerfasserIn: Biesta, Gert,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Futures; volume72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages).

What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society argues that education is not just there to give individuals, groups and societies what they want from it, but that education has a duty to resist. Education needs to be obstinate, not for the sake of being difficult, but in order to make sure that it can contribute to emancipation and democratisation. This requires that education always brings in the question whether what is desired from it is going to help with living life well, individually and collectively, on a planet that has a limited capacity for giving everything that is desired from it. This book argues that education should not just be responsive but should keep its own responsibility; should not just focus on empowerment but also on emancipation; and, through this, should help students to become ‘world-wise.’ It argues that critical thinking and classroom philosophy should retain a political orientation and not be reduced to useful thinking skills, and shows the importance of hesitation in educational relationships. This text makes a strong case for the connection between education and democracy, both in the context of schools, colleges and universities and in the work of public pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Author -- Introduction -- Responsive or Responsible? Democratic Education for the Global Networked Society -- How General Can Bildung Be? Reflections on the Future of a Modern Educational Ideal -- Becoming World-Wise: An Educational Perspective on the Rhetorical Curriculum -- Critical Thinking and the Question of Critique: Some Lessons from Deconstruction -- Philosophy, Exposure, and Children: How to Resist the Instrumentalisation of Philosophy in Education -- No Education without Hesitation: Exploring the Limits of Educational Relations -- Transclusion: Overcoming the Tension between Inclusion and Exclusion in the Discourse on Democracy and Democratisation -- Education and Democracy Revisited: Dewey’s Democratic Deficit -- Making Pedagogy Public: For the Public, of the Public, or in the Interest of Publicness? -- Looking Back and Looking Forward -- Back Matter -- From Experimentalism to Existentialism: Writing in the Margins of Philosophy of Education -- References.