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Edgoose, Julian – Educational Theory, 2009
If teaching is a political act, how can teachers hope to make a difference through their work? In this review essay, Julian Edgoose explores this question of hope in relation to three recent books: David Halpin's "Hope and Education," Jonathan Kozol's "Letters to a Young Teacher," and Jonathan Lear's "Radical Hope." Halpin describes how hope comes…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Politics of Education
Levinson, Natasha – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: This article is part of a special issue on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Hannah Arendt's essay, "The Crisis in Education" and her book The Human Condition. Despite the proliferation of books and articles on Arendt's work since the mid-90s, "The Crisis in Education" does not figure all that much in writing on…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Curriculum, Intellectual Disciplines, Teacher Role, Teacher Responsibility
Hinchliffe, Geoffrey – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: The background of the article is the continued interest in the ideas of Hannah Arendt. In her book The Human Condition, Arendt draws on sources of ideas drawn from Ancient Greece to deliver a critique of modernity. The main burden of her criticism is that the imperatives of work and labor have virtually supplanted the ideal of…
Descriptors: Political Issues, Teacher Responsibility, Teacher Role, Classroom Environment
Higgins, Chris – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: If education centrally involves self-cultivation, and the teacher's own robust selfhood is necessary for inspiring self-cultivation in students, then teacherly self-cultivation is a necessary condition of education. But teaching is seen as a helping profession, where helping others always seems, in practice if not in principle,…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Theories, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Role