1st Edition

George Orwell and Education Learning, Commitment and Human Dependency

By Christopher Hanley Copyright 2020
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

George Orwell and Education uses Orwell’s life and works to address current educational questions. His early life, political awakening and artistic development are key elements in the book’s presentation of Orwell himself as a learner, and as someone whose ideas continue to speak to contemporary debates about human interdependency. The focus of the book is on critical issues in... Read more

Dedications

Guide to abbreviations

Series Editor Introduction

Introduction

Chapter one Universality

Chapter two Young Orwell and the Nation

Chapter three Young People

Chapter four Learning

Chapter five Practice

Chapter six Truth

Chapter seven Theory

Conclusion

Biography

Christopher Hanley is Senior Lecturer in Secondary Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

"George Orwell and Education dreams of a retrieval of educational research's old attachment to literature and enacts a dynamic connection between pedagogy, literary theory and attentive reading. With rigour and tenderness, Christopher Hanley reminds us of the gift that Orwell's writing can be for today's educators."

- Denis Flannery, Associate Professor of American and English Literature, School of English, University of Leeds.