An Education in 'Evil' Implications for Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Beyond /

• Main Author: van Kessel, Cathryn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures
• Subjects: Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education-Curricula.; Education-Philosophy.; Educational sociology.; Curriculum Studies.; Educational Philosophy.; Sociology of Education.

This book asserts that engaging with divergent understandings about the nature of evil and how it functions can help those interested in education think through issues in curriculum, pedagogy, and beyond. The author provokes thinking about and through the concept of evil in the spirit of thoughtful...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Evil is in the Eye of the Beholder
• 3. Banal Evil and Social Studies Education
• 4. Processes of Evil as a Supplement to Citizenship Education
• 5. The Politics of Evil
• 6. Symbolic Evil and the Schooling System
• 7. Evil, Existential Terror, and Classroom Climate
• 8. Epilogue.-.