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Author_Sharon Todd
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Conditional Hospitality
cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan Ethic
Cosmopolitan Existence
Cosmopolitan Project
cross-cultural pedagogy
Dark Place
democratic citizenship studies
Du Foulard
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ethical pluralism in schooling
Ethico Political Values
Female Imaginary
feminist educational theory
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Hijab Ban
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Human Plurality
Human Rights
Human Rights Education
Human Rights Education Initiatives
Human Sociability
Human Suffering
Irigaray's Project
Irigaray’s Project
Language Game
Legitimate Adversary
Love Thy Neighbor
Male Imaginary
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pluralism
pluralistic ethics
poststructuralist philosophy
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Radical Democratic Theory
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Sexual Difference
sexuate
Sexuate Rights
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Product details
- ISBN 9781594516214
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The theory of cosmopolitanism is built on a paradoxical commitment to a universal idea of humanity and to a respect for human pluralism. Toward an Imperfect Education critiques the assumed "goodness" of humans that underwrites the idea of humanity and explores how antagonistic human interactions such as conflict, violence, and suffering are a fundamental aspect of life in a pluralistic world. This book proposes that the inescapable difference between humans compels our ethical and political observations in education. Todd persuasively argues that facing humanity in all its complexity and imperfection ought to be a central element of the cosmopolitan project to create a more just and humane education. Informed primarily by poststructural philosophy and feminist theory, she focuses on how sexual, cultural, and religious difference intersect with universal claims made in the name of humanity. Individual chapters develop a novel framework for dealing with antagonism in relation to human rights, democracy, citizenship, and cross-cultural understanding.
Sharon Todd is Professor of Education at Stockholm University and Mälardalen University. She is author most recently of Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education (SUNY Press, 2003).
