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Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and their Legacies
Author(s): Jon Nixon (Author)
- Publisher: Continuum
- Publication Date: 29 Mar. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 1441117156
- ISBN-13: 9781441117151
Book Description
Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we understand and interpret the world and how our understandings and interpretations act on that world. Jon Nixon focuses on the work of four public intellectuals each of whom reaches out to a wide public readership and develops our understanding regarding the nature of interpretation in the everyday world: Hannah Arendt’s work on ‘representative thinking’, John Berger’s injunction to ‘hold everything dear’, Edward Said’s notion of ‘democratic criticism’, and Martha Nussbaum’s studies in the intelligence of feeling. These thinkers provide valuable perspectives on the nature and purpose of interpretation in everyday life. The implications of these perspectives for the development of a transformative pedagogy – and for the renewal of an educated public – are examined in relation to the current contexts of higher education within a knowledge society.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book is indeed an invaluable read for anyone concerned about the future of higher education in the twenty-first century. Although this book is not intended for theological education audiences, I believe they can use Nixon’s pointed insights to reflect on the challenges of globalization and its dehumanizing ethos for higher educational contexts and for theological school in particular. Theological schools are not exempt from these challenges and they offer both a capacity for embracing that which is just and resisting with hope that which is not.” –Debora B. Agra Junker, Christian Theological Seminary, Teaching Theology & Religion
About the Author
Jon Nixon is Honorary Professor in the Center for Lifelong Learning Research and Development at The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
