In Search of Responsibility as Education: Traversing Banal and Radical Terrains [Paperback]

Introduction: Meanings of Responsibility in Context 1. Bureaucracy, Responsibility, and Education 2. The Imagination as Teacher 3. Exceptionally American Visions: On Human Rights and Genocide Education 4. Curriculum of Common Sense in Times of Plague 5. A Responsibility Like No Other Epilogue to Postscript: Mortality: The Miracle that Saves the World ?

Not to be conflated with systems of accountability, this book examines responsibility as a subject of educational inquiry.

Hannah Spectors forceful philosophical inquiry, In Search of Responsibility as Education compels readers to contemplate the meanings and enactment of individual and collective responsibility in an increasingly uncertain and precarious time. Assuming responsibility for the world and others, Spector generates much needed relational, ethical and other-oriented educational forms of thinking towards acting. Resisting abstraction, Spector merges political and education philosophy, in the tradition of Hannah Arendt and Maxine Greene, to re-insert philosophical forms of insight, persuasion, thought into the public sphere characterized by a growing anti-intellectualism infecting contemporary political and social life. This exemplary study of the educational value and potential of responsibility is a must read for educational philosophers, scholars and students of philosophy, teacher educators, and teachers and all those committed to rethinking the role of philosophical thinking towards stewarding the next generation into a more habitable, just, and sustainable world.

 Aparna Mishra Tarc, Associate Professor, York University, Canada

Hannah Spectors In Search of Responsibility as Education comprises a well-researched and hard-hitting series of essays that unflinchingly explores our responsibilitylCM