Postcolonial Education and National Identity

An Arendtian Re-imagination

Rowena Azada-Palacios (Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
28 November 2024

Social & cultural history; Moral & social purpose of education

Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education

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.

By: Rowena Azada-Palacios (Ateneo de Manila University Philippines)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781350433311
ISBN 10: 1350433314
Series: Bloomsbury Inquiries in Philosophy and Education
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 28 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rowena Azada-Palacios is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.

Reviews for Postcolonial Education and National Identity: An Arendtian Re-imagination

Drawing on a rigorous and incisive reading of Hannah Arendt’s political and educational thought, this book advances fresh and significant insights into important questions of postcolonial education and national identity. -- Wayne Veck, University of Winchester, UK This valuable book elegantly and critically engages with Hannah Arendt’s political theory and provides a most innovative discussion of national identities, cosmopolitan thought and post-colonial spatiality. It pertinently revisits the cultivation of political belonging in a specific context and helps us rethink citizenship education beyond Eurocentric sensibilities and hegemonies. -- Marianna Papastephanou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus