Schools as Social Spaces: Towards an Arendtian Consideration of Multicultural Education

Hannah Arendt has been criticised for the sharp distinction she drew between the social and political realms, and her application of this distinction to schools. In this paper, I demonstrate that this distinction can be interpreted as a heuristic that Arendt developed to address a tension that she h...

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Main Author:	Azada-Palacios, Rowena
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Published:	Archīum Ateneo 2021
Subjects:	Arendt citizenship education multicultural education natality vulnerability Education Philosophy
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spelling	ph-ateneo-arc.philo-faculty-pubs-10532022-01-27T08:53:54Z Schools as Social Spaces: Towards an Arendtian Consideration of Multicultural Education Azada-Palacios, Rowena Hannah Arendt has been criticised for the sharp distinction she drew between the social and political realms, and her application of this distinction to schools. In this paper, I demonstrate that this distinction can be interpreted as a heuristic that Arendt developed to address a tension that she had encountered in her attempt to understand childhood. She understood schools to be spaces that could prepare children for citizenship. However, she also recognised that attempts to prepare children for citizenship threatened two characteristics of childhood: their vulnerability and their natality. Arendt's heuristic can be fruitful for addressing dilemmas in citizenship education in ethnoculturally plural contexts. 2021-10-28T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://archium.ateneo.edu/philo-faculty-pubs/54 https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=philo-faculty-pubs Philosophy Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Arendt citizenship education multicultural education natality vulnerability Education Philosophy
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description	Hannah Arendt has been criticised for the sharp distinction she drew between the social and political realms, and her application of this distinction to schools. In this paper, I demonstrate that this distinction can be interpreted as a heuristic that Arendt developed to address a tension that she had encountered in her attempt to understand childhood. She understood schools to be spaces that could prepare children for citizenship. However, she also recognised that attempts to prepare children for citizenship threatened two characteristics of childhood: their vulnerability and their natality. Arendt's heuristic can be fruitful for addressing dilemmas in citizenship education in ethnoculturally plural contexts.
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title	Schools as Social Spaces: Towards an Arendtian Consideration of Multicultural Education
title_short	Schools as Social Spaces: Towards an Arendtian Consideration of Multicultural Education
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title_full_unstemmed	Schools as Social Spaces: Towards an Arendtian Consideration of Multicultural Education
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publisher	Archīum Ateneo
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