den Heyer Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5199-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues

Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the firstcollection to explore the educational implications of Frenchphilosopher Alain Badiou's challenge to contemporary philosophicalorthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on theUnderstanding of Evil.
* Represents the first collection of work in education to grapplewith what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise ofschooling
* Takes up Badiou's challenge to contemporary and conventionalAnglo-American doxa
* Includes original essays by experts in several differenteducational fields

Autoren/Hrsg.

den Heyer, Kent

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors.
Foreword (Michael A. Peters).
Introduction: Alain Badiou: 'Becoming subject' toeducation (Kent den Heyer).
1. Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts (Thomas E.Peterson).
2. Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or,'art cannot be taught--it can however educate!'(Jan Jagodzinski).
3. Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching(Peter M. Taubman).
4. Reconceptualizing Professional Development for CurriculumLeadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou(Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. Henderson).
5. The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul andthe question of economic managerialism in education (AnnaStrhan).
6. Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and theignorant schoolmaster (Charles Andrew Barbour).
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kent den Heyer is Associate Professor in the Department of Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. den Heyer has published and presented research internationally on student and teacher interpretations of the conditions necessary for social change, psychoanalytic approaches to anti-racist education, and curriculum theory.