1st Edition

Caring Confrontations for Education and Democracy

By R. Scott Webster Copyright 2022
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

Caring Confrontations for Education and Democracy makes a compelling case for redirecting current practices of education to focus on being educated rather than having an education. The book offers a detailed analysis of how an education for democracy must encourage commitment to important ideals and strengthen the vulnerabilities of people which make them easily manipulated by... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Importance of the Individual for Democratic Society

Chapter 2 The having mode of Existence

Chapter 3 The being mode of Existence

Chapter 4 Educating through Confronting Oneself

Chapter 5 A Pedagogy of Caring Confrontation

Chapter 6 Confronting Society and Authorities

Chapter 7 Conclusion: Education of the demos as existential authenticity

Biography

R. Scott Webster is an Associate Professor at the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. He researches and publishes in the areas of philosophy of education, curriculum theory, teacher education, existentialism and spirituality.