Levinas and Education

<p>This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy educational theory and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas's major themes of ethics justice hope hospitality forgiveness and more as its contributing authors address some fundamental educational issues such as: what it means to be a teacher; what it means to learn from a teacher; the role of language in the curriculum; literature ethics and education; moral education and human relations in schools; ethics of responsibility and philosophical-pedagogical discourse; educational hospitality and interculturalism; unconditional responsibility and education; educating for participatory democratic citizenship; the pedagogy of peace; logic rationality and ethics; connecting teaching to spirituality.</p><p>Levinas always insisted that his aim was not to provide a program and accordingly it is not the intent of the authors to look in Levinas's texts for a set of guidelines rules or precepts to be applied to education. Rather this study invites educators and researchers in philosophy and philosophy of education to a thoughtful and critical reading of Levinas and to engage with his unique style of analysis and questioning as they uncover with these authors the necessity and the possibility of thinking education anew in terms of ethics justice responsibility hope and faith.</p>