Hannah Arendt on Educational Thinking and Practice in Dark Times

Wayne Veck is Senior Lecturer in Education at Winchester University, UK, having started his teaching career as a teacher of English to students from Afghanistan and Iraq seeking refuge in the UK. Helen M. Gunter is Professor of Educational Policy at the University of Manchester, UK, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

• Introduction: Hannah Arendt and the Promise of Education in Dark Times, Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK) and Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK)Part I: The Promise of Education1. Public Education: The Challenge of Educational Authority in a World Without Authority, Roger Berkowitz (Bard College, USA)2. Thinking with Arendt: Education and Temporality, Faisal Baluch (College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, USA)3. Education in and for a World of Difference, Jon Nixon (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)Part II: Education and Crisis4. Identity as Other and the Promise of the Narrative Imagination: An Arendtian Vision for Educational Theorising, Jo Dillabough (University of Cambridge, UK)5. The Politics of Education Policy, Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK)6. Hannah Arendt, Education and the Refugee Crisis: Natality, Compensatory Schooling and Assimilation, Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK)Part III: Education for Love of the World7. Hannah Arendt and Holocaust Education, Marie Morgan (University of Winchester, UK)8. Can You Learn Democracy in a Classroom? John Dewey and Hannah Arendt on the “Paradox of Size”, Aaron Schutz (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)9. Thinking in Dark Times: Learning to Repair and Renew Our Common World, Eduardo Duarte (Hofstra University, USA)Conclusion: The Promise of Education Revisited, Wayne Veck (University of Winchester, UK) and Helen M. Gunter (University of Manchester, UK)ReferencesIndex

This compelling collection will be of interest to anyone seeking alternative perspectives on education to those which currently dominate. Each essay demands thoughtfulness in the process of reading, and subsequently, our research and practice, in order to enact our natality on the world.