Hobson Albert Camus and Education

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-94-6300-920-1
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 20 Seiten, eBook

This book continues the story about education and the absurd. Its specific focus is on the work of Albert Camus. It tries to summarise the ways in which his writing has already inspired and influenced educational thinking and practice, and it offers a new set of educational interpretations of six of his major works. These set out the exciting challenge about how we might think about the purposes and practices of education in the future, how to talk about these, plan and deliver.
Using the work of Albert Camus in this way is an attempt to bring him and his ideas closer to educational discussions. This is a deliberate attempt to show the synergy between some of his major concepts and those that are already cornerstones of educational discourses.
Read from an educational perspective the work of Albert Camus also provides guidance and invigorates the imagination as to how education can respond to those increasingly complex, existential crises it finds itself connected to. For educational people interested in these questions this book will hopefully motivate a re-reading of Camus and a brave, new lens on practice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobson, Aidan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction; The Myth of Sisyphus; The Broad and Enduring Appeal of the Camusean Absurd; The Emerging Educational Interest; The Predominant Theme: The Absurd and Pedagogy; The Imagery of Sisyphus and Education; Education and Sisyphus; Educative Feelings; Exile; The Absurd; Limits; Absurd Reasoning; Absurd Learner; Absurd Creation; Exile and the Kingdom; Looking Back at This Article; The Precipice between Exile and the Kingdom; Empowering Relations, Revolt and Martin Buber; Almost Authentic - Characters on the Precipice; Possibilities Annihilated - A Preference for Slavery; Relations Won; Conclusion: A Pedagogy of Empowering Relations; The Outsider; Looking Back at This Article; The Importance of the Stranger; The Absurd; Doubt; Limits; Ambiguity; Dialogue; Solidarity and Hope; Creativity; Diversity and Hope; Conclusion; The Rebel; Looking Back at This Article; Introduction; Background and the Critique of the Rebel; Authentic Revolt and Education; Education and Failed Rebellion; Teaching; Conclusion; The Fall; Looking Back at This Article; Introduction; The Stranger and Its Place in Educational Theory; The Experience of Little Ease; Education and the Little Ease; The Plague; Introduction; Plague and Education; Plague and Exile; Education and Exile; Oran as an Education System; The Habitat of Strangeness; Concluding Remarks; References.