Old and New Generations in the 21st Century

Stefan Ramaekers is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Laboratory for Education and Society (Research Group Education, Culture and Society), at KU Leuven, Belgium. His recent research has mainly focused on a critical investigation of the discourse of ‘parenting’ and the parent–child relationship, and on the ‘pedagogical’ significance of educational support. Recently, he has started collaborating with Dr. Naomi Hodgson on researching figurations of ‘parenting’ in cultural representations, such as film.

• Introduction: Old and new generations in the 21st century: shifting landscapes of education 1. The authority of Bildung: educational practices in early childhood education 2. On (philosophical) suffering and not knowing one’s way about (yet) in educational philosophy: Reply to Christiane Thompson 3. Postliberal education 4. Transition to parenthood and intergenerational relationships: the ethical value of family memory 5. Exhausting the fatigue university: in search of a biopolitics of research 6. Epistemic empathy in childrearing and education 7. For the sake of peace: maintaining the resonance of peace and education 8. Education in times of fast learning: the future of the school 9. Taking a chance: education for aesthetic judgment and the criticism of culture 10. Character education and the disappearance of the political 11. Formal criteria for the concept of human flourishing: the first step in defending flourishing as an ideal aim of education

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