Postcolonial Education and National Identity
An Arendtian Re-imagination
Postcolonial Education and National Identity
An Arendtian Re-imagination
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Winner of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 2025 Book Award
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Ideological Roots of Philippine Identity-Building in Schools
2. Postcolonial Foundations for an Education for National Identity
3. Cultural Belonging in Arendt's Thought: Her Concept of the 'Social'
4. Educational Tensions and the Liminality of the School
5. Arendt's Educational Thought: Limitations and Applications
6. Classrooms as Cultural Playgrounds
7. 'Amor Mundi' and the Danger of Insularity
Conclusion
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 25 Jun 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 9781350433342 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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