1st Edition

Sustainable and Democratic Education Opening Spaces for Complexity, Subjectivity and the Future 

By Sarah Chave Copyright 2021
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

In a world struggling with environmental and social problems resistant to current solutions, education needs to explore ways to ‘enlarge the space of the possible’ rather than only ‘replicate the existing possible’. To respond to this challenge, this book troubles dominant Western philosophical conceptions which continue to have wide-ranging influence in education worldwide and which limit... Read more

1. Introduction   2. Recognising and Challenging Static Framings and Ways of Being in the World  3. Recognising and Challenging ways of Being in the World founded on Separation, Autonomy and Rationality  4. Opening the Possibility for the Emergence of Other Ways to be a Human Subject: A Role for ‘Spaces of Appearance'  5. Disruptive, Inaugurative ‘Spaces of Appearance’ - Holding Open the Future  6. Arendt’s Forgiveness and Mutual Promising: A Framework for Approaching Ethical Issues Opened by Emergence  7. Intersubjective First-person Encounters and Encouraging the Possibility of Emergence of New Subjectivities  8. Subjectivity and Intersubjective Encounters (with)in the Wider Natural World  9. Opening Spaces for the Appearance of New Subjectivities, Action and Hope

Biography

Sarah Chave is Associate Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. She has researched and taught adult and higher education for over 30 years. Her areas of interest include teacher education, business and economics, language, embodied and arts-based research methodologies, equality, diversity and social justice and sustainability. Since completing her PhD in 2017, she has been involved in an international project researching decolonising teacher education and arts-based research looking at ways to develop more caring relationships with materials.