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Happiness, Hope, and Despair

Rethinking the Role of Education

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

In the Western world it is usually taken as given that we all want happiness, and our educational arrangements tacitly acknowledge this. argues, however, that education has an important role to play in deepening our understanding of suffering and despair as well as happiness and joy. Education can be uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unsettling; it can lead to greater uncertainty and unhappiness. Drawing on the work of Søren Kierkegaard, Miguel de Unamuno, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Simone Weil, Paulo Freire, and others, Peter Roberts shows why these features of educational life need not be feared; to the contrary, they can be seen as a source of hope and human fulfilment. After years of negotiating an education system dominated by the language of competition, performance, and economic advancement, students and teachers often long for something different; they seek not just measurable success but also opportunities to ask searching questions of themselves and the world they encounter. Happiness, Hope, and Despair makes an important contribution toward meeting this need. It fosters a rethinking of the nature, purpose, and value of education, and opens up possibilities for further scholarly and professional inquiry.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-2097-8 / 978-1433120978 / 9781433120978

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2015

Seiten: 140

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Peter Roberts
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