Taking Care of the Future Moral Education and British Humanitarianism in South Africa /

• Main Author: Pattenden, Oliver (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Anthropological Studies of Education
• Subjects: Ethnography.; Ethnology.; Educational sociology.; Church and education.; Social Anthropology.; Cultural Anthropology.; Sociology of Education.; Religion and Education.

Taking Care of the Future examines the moral dimensions and transformative capacities of education and humanitarianism through an intimate portrayal of learners, volunteers, donors, and educators at a special needs school in South Africa and a partnering UK-based charity. Drawing on his professional...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Constructing Futures
• 2. Living in a City, Town, and Location
• 3. Extrinsic Barriers to Learning and Judgements of Normality
• 4. A Loving Education
• 5. Promoting Specialness/Creating Transformations
• 6. The Politics of Obligations
• 7. Being Taught How to Hope
• 8. Moral Contestation and the Value of Schooling. .