
Postcolonial Education and National Identity
An Arendtian Re-imagination
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Recognizing the strategic role that national identities play in post-colonial struggles for justice, this book conceptualizes a new approach to teaching national identity that, following Hannah Arendt, emphasizes children's ability to renew culture. The book uses the Philippine colonial experience as a case study, and includes a genealogy of Hannah Arendt's concept of the 'social', including an analysis of how she used this idea to explore the role that schools play within the political community. Azada-Palacios problematizes the way that national identity is valued as an educational goal in Philippine schools and the way that Philippine citizenship education continues to aspire towards a homogeneity of culture. Through an examination of colonial-era documents, she traces this characteristic of colonial history, and identifies this aspiration as an unreflective perpetuation of American colonial educational policy that has not been sufficiently criticized.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part 1 A Postcolonial Analysis of National Identity
- Part 2 Understanding Identity through Arendt’s Educational Thought
- Part 3 Schools as Cultural Playgrounds
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Imprint