Postcolonial Education and National Identity
eBook - ePub

Postcolonial Education and National Identity

An Arendtian Re-imagination

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Postcolonial Education and National Identity

An Arendtian Re-imagination

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

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Series Editor’s Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Abbreviations
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. Part 1 A Postcolonial Analysis of National Identity
  10. Part 2 Understanding Identity through Arendt’s Educational Thought
  11. Part 3 Schools as Cultural Playgrounds
  12. Notes
  13. References
  14. Index
  15. Imprint