Unlocking the World: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality - Softcover

Ruitenberg, Claudia W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612057810 ISBN 13: 9781612057811

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

"Unlocking the World "proposes hospitality as a guiding ethic for education. Based on the work of Jacques Derrida, it suggests that giving place to children and newcomers is at the heart of education. The primary responsibility of the host is not to assimilate newcomers into tradition but rather to create or leave a place where they may arrive. Hospitality as a guiding ethic for education is discussed in its many facets, including the decentered conception of subjectivity on which it relies, the way it casts the relation between teacher and student, and its conception of curriculum as an inheritance that asks for a critical reception. The book examines the relation between an ethic of hospitality and the educational contexts in which it would guide practice. Since these contexts are marked by gender, culture, and language, it asks how such differences affect enactments of hospitality. Since hospitality typically involves a power difference between host and guest, the book addresses how an ethic of hospitality accounts for power, whether it is appropriate for educational contexts marked by colonialism, and how it might guide education aimed at social justice."

About this title

About the Author:

Claudia Ruitenberg is Associate Professor, Philosophy of Education, at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of the Philosophy of Education 2012 Yearbook (2012) and What Do Philosophers of Education Do? (And How Do They Do It?) (2010), and co-editor (with D. C. Phillips) of Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain (2012).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1612057810
• ISBN 13: 9781612057811
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178