‘Back to the Future’: thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Alec Clegg (1909-1986) on the promise of education

Wood, Margaret and Pennington, Andrew and Su, Feng (2022) ‘Back to the Future’: thinking with Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Alec Clegg (1909-1986) on the promise of education. Oxford Review of Education, 49 (2). pp. 247-261. ISSN 0305-4985

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Abstract

This paper analyses, mingles and blends divergent and complementary strands from the thinking of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Sir Alec Clegg (1909-1986), two contemporaneous but different influential public figures and thinkers in the post-World War Two period. The paper uses these strands to construct a critique of the current colonisation of education by neoliberal economic logics and performative architecture. Their ideas emerge as bulwarks against populist discourse, reductivist, authoritarian framings of education policy and the restrictive and prescriptive direction of education practice. Conceptions of pluralism, imagination, the location of children and young people’s perspectives in the adult world, citizenry and engagement with the world are illuminated for their refreshing power to replenish and sustain the conditions for an education that supports human flourishing.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Oxford Review of Education on 21st March 2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2022.2052828"
Keywords:	education; Hannah Arendt; Alec Clegg; children's rights; plurality; dialogue; imagination; progressive; childhood
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education
Depositing User:	Frank Su
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2022 08:43
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 12:01
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/3496

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