Rethinking Education and Emancipation Diverse Perspectives on Contemporary Challenges

This edited collection responds to the contemporary need for deeper analysis and rethinking of the relation between education and emancipation in a world beset by social, digital, educational and ecological crises. Among the diverse interdisciplinary perspectives explored are: rethinking the Anthropocene in the time of environmental emergency, the concept of relational thinking as emancipatory practice and a more encompassing concept of relational pedagogy that includes questions about the environment and digitalisation, the notion of indoctrination from the perspective of political education, reconnecting with the body as a form of emancipatory education and how schools reproduce socio-cultural ideologies in synergy with material and visual culture. The book chapters also consider the role of social media, postcolonialism and feminism in understanding emancipatory education and a historical reception of John Dewey’s ideas in other than Western contexts. This volume will be of interestto those seeking well-known as well as further and novel acquaintance with the philosophical and critical issues surrounding different forms and ideas of emancipation and/or/through education, including related practical propositions and examples. Educators, scholars in education, social justice, philosophy, sociology and curriculum developers will find this collection valuable in contemplating, practising and theorising the futures of emancipatory education across contexts and themes.

Chapter 1- On the Relationship Between Education and Emancipation Krstic Predrag, Lackovic Nataša, Nikolic Olga, Cvejic Igor.- Part 1:  Education-Emancipation: Histories and Tensions.- Chapter 2 - Does Education Require Emancipation? A historical analysis Krstic Predrag.- Chapter 3 - Emancipatory Education Through an Inclusion of Minority Political Views: Exploring the Concept of Indoctrination Miloš Kovacevic.- Chapter 4 – Ways and sideways of emancipation: Dewey’s reception in different political eras of an other-than-Western context Milica Sekulovic and Aleksandra Ilic Rajkovic,- Part 2:  Emancipatory Education and Contemporary Challenges.- Chapter 5 – The Anthropocene Subject and Emancipation: The challenge of “emancipatory” pedagogy in an era of climate crisis Cary Campbell.- Chapter 6 - Developing feminist-decolonial-capabilities for emancipatory pedagogy: A case of Gulf-Arab women’s learner-positionalities Zoe Hurley Chapter 7 – Relational Thinking: A Key Ingredient of Relational Pedagogy and Education Nataša Lackovic Part 3: Emancipation Ways and Needs in Teaching.- Chapter 8 – Learning from the arts: Dance as emancipation of the body Una Popovic.- Chapter 9 – Towards emancipatory dialogues on girls’ social positioning in schools: Uniforms and work fit for future Japanese women? Yoshiko Itashiki.- Chapter 10 – Education for Emancipating Teachers Paolo Scotton.- Chapter 11- Epilogue: Future work in and for emancipatory education Krstic Predrag, Lackovic Nataša.

 

 

 

 

 Nataša Lackovic is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK.

Predrag Krstic is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Olga Nikolic is Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Igor Cvejic is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia.