Postcolonial Education and National Identity: An Arendtian Re-imagination

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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.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
Number of pages200
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781350433328, 9781350433335
ISBN (Print)9781350433311
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 2024

Publication series

NameBloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education

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