Introduction: Foreshining, or possibility in dark times 1. A question of learning hope 2. Refusing despair: the chance of the new alternatives 3. Living on the Front of the world 4. Radical democracy: a fragile promise 5. Encouraging democracy: foundations of radical reason 6. Educational pioneers on the democratic frontier 7. Cultivating counter-capitalism, educating the politics of possibility 8. Radical democracy: a pedagogy of hope Index
Biography
Sarah S. Amsler is a Reader in Education at the University of Lincoln.
"This is a beautiful, necessary and powerful book. Inspired in Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of hope, the book explores and discusses counter and post-capitalist and democratic possibility, thus bringing light to the darkness of the present. This book is opening a new path in the field of radical education." - Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, University of Bath
"This is a stunning, scholarly and passionate book. It provides a clear-sighted analysis of where we find ourselves today, as well as offering intellectual and practical strategies for the urgent task of opening up spaces of possibility and hope. Everyone should read it." - Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures, University of Bristol
