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Old and New Generations in the 21st Century Shifting Landscapes of Education
The matter of simply living together, on both a global and a local scale, is complicated by the cultural, economic, religious, technological, and ecological challenges that we face in today’s world. An educational–philosophical take on these complexities translates into reflections on, and attempts to answer, the questions that these challenges raise. How is the older generation to introduce a new generation into today’s world and to ‘prepare’ it for the world to come? What sense can be given to such introduction and ‘preparation’? Or in the more general terms of Friedrich Schleiermacher, ‘What indeed does the older generation intend to do with the younger generation?
The contributions in this book – originally presented during the 14th conference of the International Network of Philosophers of Education – address a broad range of philosophical issues related to the question of the educational relationship between generations today. The philosophical analysis offered by the authors in this volume creates openings, not only for other philosophers of education, but also for policy makers and practitioners. They serve as invitations, not only for further thinking but also for reconsidering educational practices; and most importantly, they generate new questions, for both today’s and tomorrow’s generations. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethics and Education.
Introduction: Old and new generations in the 21st century: shifting landscapes of education Stefan Ramaekers
1. The authority of Bildung: educational practices in early childhood education Christiane Thompson
2. On (philosophical) suffering and not knowing one’s way about (yet) in educational philosophy: Reply to Christiane Thompson Stefan Ramaekers
3. Postliberal education Robert A. Davis
4. Transition to parenthood and intergenerational relationships: the ethical value of family memory Monica Amadini
5. Exhausting the fatigue university: in search of a biopolitics of research Florelle D’Hoest and Tyson E. Lewis
6. Epistemic empathy in childrearing and education Kai Horsthemke
7. For the sake of peace: maintaining the resonance of peace and education Kanako Ide
8. Education in times of fast learning: the future of the school Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons
9. Taking a chance: education for aesthetic judgment and the criticism of culture Naoko Saito
10. Character education and the disappearance of the political Judith Suissa
11. Formal criteria for the concept of human flourishing: the first step in defending flourishing as an ideal aim of education Lynne S. Wolbert, Doret J. de Ruyter and Anders Schinkel
Biography
Stefan Ramaekers is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Laboratory for Education and Society (Research Group Education, Culture and Society), at KU Leuven, Belgium. His recent research has mainly focused on a critical investigation of the discourse of ‘parenting’ and the parent–child relationship, and on the ‘pedagogical’ significance of educational support. Recently, he has started collaborating with Dr. Naomi Hodgson on researching figurations of ‘parenting’ in cultural representations, such as film.
