Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth

Tina (A.C.) Besley is Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. She was formerly Professor and Associate Dean at University of Waikato. Tina is President, Philosophy of Education Association of Australasia, and founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies. Tina has published widely in philosophy of education, interculturalism and global knowledge economy and cultures.Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor, Beijing Normal University. He was a Professor at University of Waikato, University of Glasgow and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He has published over 100 books, is Editor in Chief of Educational Philosophy and Theory and Open Review of Educational Research, holds Honorary Doctorates from State University New York and Aalborg University, Denmark, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Teaching, Philosophy and the Education of Youth1 Philosophy, Education and the Corruption of Youth: From Socrates to Islamic ExtremistsIntroductionYouth, Moral Development and IndoctrinationThe Case of Socrates – A Teacher Accused of Corrupting YouthEducation, Dissent, Indoctrination and Corrupting Youth – Contemporary ExemplarsConclusion2 Heidegger, De-Nazification and the Art of TeachingIntroductionHeidegger as TeacherHeidegger’s Comportment and the Art of Teaching3 Truth-Telling as an Educational Practice of the Self: Foucault, Parrhesia and the Ethics of SubjectivityIntroductionFoucault on the Truth: From Regimes to Games of TruthParrhesia, Education and Practices of Truth-TellingConclusion: Foucault and the Prospects for Parrhesiastical Education4 Interculturalism, Ethnocentrism and DialogueIntroduction: Interculturalism and EthnocentrismDialogueConclusion5 Understanding the Sources of Anti-Westernism: An Interview with Jan Nederveen Pieterse6 Islam and the End of European Multiculturalism? From Multiculturalism to Civic IntegrationIntroductionFrom Multiculturalism to the Crisis of Civic IntegrationDavid Camerons 2011 Speech at the Munich Security ConferenceEducation and the Rise of Terrorism StudiesReactions to Islamic Extremism: Hate Preachers and Poisonous NarrativesRadicalization as ‘Education’The Crisis of Integration&emps;Appendix7 ‘Western Education Is Sinful’: Boko Haram and the Abduction of Chibok SchoolgirlsIntroduction8 Global Citizenship Education: Politics, Problems and ProspectsIntroduction9 The Refugee Crisis and the Right to Political AsylumIntroduction10 The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Words without Borders‘Refugee Blues,’ by W.H. AudenFrom ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’, by Chinua Achebe‘From Home’, by Warsan ShireFrom ‘When I am Overcome by Weakness’, by Najat Abdul SamadFrom ‘I Am a Refugee’, by Mohamed Raouf Bachir11 From State Responsibility for Education and Welfare to Self-Responsibilization in the MarketIntroduction12 Pedagogies of the Walking Dead: Diminishing Responsibility for Social Justice in a Neoliberal WorldIntroduction: Zombie TheoryResponsibilization and DeprofessionalizationResponsibilizing Teachers: The International AgenciesNeoliberalism and TeachersConclusion: Education for Ecological DemocracyDemocracy, Yet AgainEcological DemocracyOrigins and PossibilitiesEducation for Ecological DemocracyPostscript: The End of Neoliberal Globalization and the Rise of Authoritarian Populism