The Edges of Education

Limits and Possibilities

Peter Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

138 Seiten

2025
Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-0343-5176-8 (ISBN)

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In education, as in other areas of human endeavour, we often strive for what is easiest, least troubling and most certain. We want clear, definitive answers to our questions. Ambiguity and complexity may be viewed as impediments to our progress as learners, and doubt will sometimes be portrayed as a sign of weakness. This book pushes back against these tendencies. Informed by the work of Giacomo Leopardi, Arthur Schopenhauer, Simone Weil, Maxine Greene, Miguel de Unamuno, and Simone de Beauvoir, it explores some of the uncomfortable, unsettling, less frequently visited ‘edges’ of education. These conceptual and lived spaces often blur the boundaries between the possible and the impossible, setting limits while also opening up unexpected opportunities for teaching and learning. They are there for us all to experience, if only we can open our eyes to see them and muster the courage to investigate them.

Peter Roberts is Professor of Education at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His teaching and research interests are in philosophy of education and educational policy studies.

Introduction
The Edges of Education: Limits and Possibilities

Chapter 1
Nature, Reason and Education: Learning with Leopardi

Chapter 2
‘The Clear Eye of the World’: Schopenhauer on Pure Contemplation

Chapter 3
Education and the Ethics of Attention: The Work of Simone Weil

Chapter 4
The Stranger as Teacher: Maxine Greene, Madness and the Mystery of Education

Chapter 5
Education, Death and Immortality: From Unamuno to Beauvoir and Beyond

Credits

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Complicated Conversation ; 64
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	221 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Berufspädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Schlagworte	Aesthetics • attention • Beauvoir • Contemplation • Death • Despair • edges • Education • ethics • Existentialism • Greene • Happiness • Hope • Immortality • Knowledge • learning • leopardi • Limits • limits and possibilities • Madness • Peter • Peter Roberts • pinar • possibilities • reason • roberts • Schopenhauer • Teaching • The Edges of Education • Unamuno • Uncertainty • Weil • William
ISBN-10	3-0343-5176-3 / 3034351763
ISBN-13	978-3-0343-5176-8 / 9783034351768
Zustand	Neuware