In Search of Responsibility as Education: Traversing Banal and Radical Terrains

This book explores responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry, arguing that it is not connected to a higher authority but involves speaking the truth in a world characterized by organized lying and irresponsibility. It examines issues such as bureaucratization, ethical imagination, imperial nationalism, common sense, and the end of the human world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 142 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Responsibility, a subject of educational inquiry, goes beyond systems of accountability. In its most radical sense, responsibility is not tied to a higher authority; rather, it calls upon individuals to act morally when no one else is present to define what is right. It involves speaking truthfully in a world characterized by organized lying and irresponsibility. This book delves into various aspects of the search for responsibility in education, including:

The erosion of ethical consciousness caused by the bureaucratization of the world.

The importance of cultivating the ethical imagination in education for sustaining democracy and countering indifference to crimes against humanity and the planet.

Critiquing the imperial nationalism of education legislation that mandates teaching about genocides and other mass atrocities occurring by 'others' and 'abroad' but not at 'home' or by 'us.'

Centralizing a curriculum of common sense in an era marked by a breakdown of common sense and disinformation narratives.

Addressing the reality of the end of the human world.

By reimagining education as a means to foster personal responsibility and global justice, this text appeals to students, scholars, and researchers in curriculum studies, philosophy of education, educational policy, and teacher education.

Weight: 458g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367821418