1st Edition
Defending the Value of Education as a Public Good Philosophical Dialogues on Education and the State
Centred around a philosophical argument for contemporary education as a fundamental good, this edited volume demonstrates the benefits that education brings in a civil and flourishing societal context while also critiquing the state’s role in supporting and strengthening this educational focus.
Chapters present in-depth philosophical and historical arguments that explore core aspects of education that are frequently overlooked, illustrating education’s role as a non-partisan public good during contentious times. Through this volume, diverse voices are heard from those with experience of life under communism as well as life in a stable democracy arguing, for example, that despite differing contexts, the value of education is autonomous and intrinsic. Ultimately drawing on conceptual frameworks, this timely volume reconciles the Anglo-American Continental dialogues on education and presents novel and challenging ideas to its readers.
Striving to inspire new research through its various reflections on the relationship between education and the state, the book will be useful to scholars, researchers, and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, education policy, sociology of education as well as theory of education.
The Introduction as well as Chapters 3, 5, 6 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA) 4.0 license.
Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Introduction: Education and the State - Between Past and Future Katarzyna Wrońska and Julian Stern
Part I: Education and the state
Chapter 1. Uncovering education as a practice in its own right Pádraig Hogan
Chapter 2. An optimistic anarchist’s guide to education and the state Julian Stern
Chapter 3. Education, ideology, and critical thinking Tomasz Leś
Chapter 4. Educational dimension of acts of political forgiveness Jarosław Horowski
Part II: Balancing the purposes of schooling
Chapter 5. Becoming, knowing, and governing oneself in Erasmus’s educational theory and practice Joanna Kostyło
Chapter 6. Competition in education from the perspective of liberalism and liberal education Katarzyna Wrońska
Chapter 7. Education and democracy nexus: Social media as a "space" of formation of a sense of responsibility for oneself and for others among young people Marcin Rebes
Chapter 8. Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism Stephen R. C. Hicks
Part III: The Future of education
Chapter 9. Pedagogy, learning, and becoming oneself Rafał Godoń
Chapter 10. The eclipse of a liberal-democratic state and the future of education Piotr Kostyło
Chapter 11. Reforming the university: considering Niklas Luhmann's remarks Katarzyna Guczalska and Wioleta Gałat
Chapter 12. Doctoral education, the state, and public goods in a changing world Mike Bottery
Conclusion Julian Stern and Katarzyna Wrońska
Biography
Katarzyna Wrońska is Associate Professor in Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Education, Poland.
Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK.
