Democratic Education in an Armed Society
Learning to Live with Guns
Seiten
2023
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3344-4 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-3344-4 (ISBN)
Democratic Education in an Armed Society provides an account of how our conceptions of democratic education affect our ability to make democracy work while holding a gun. It suggests that school gun violence is tied to how we teach children to think of themselves as democratic actors.
Democratic Education in an Armed Society examines the points of intersection between school gun violence and democratic education. Tracing conversations about agency and mastery in the archives of liberalism, pragmatism and new materialism, Samantha Deane explores the connection between how we teach children to think of themselves as democratic actors and the unceasing plague of gun violence. Juxtaposing two images of political agency, Deane connects an essentialized view of humans as masters of themselves, objects, and history with discourses that aims to train individuals to be autonomous and rational users of objects like guns. This liberal view, she contends, gives us no way to think about how objects, narratives, and norms contour the selves we claim to be. Deane posits another way. She suggests that we learn to attend to the ways in which our ability to act in the world is shared and distributed. In a society shot through with guns an enamored with individualism, the future of associational life depends on whether we learn to do democracy with the objects we hold dear.It requires a reckoning with our constitutive betweenness and efforts to educate children to think while enmeshed within the complex association of human + gun.
Democratic Education in an Armed Society examines the points of intersection between school gun violence and democratic education. Tracing conversations about agency and mastery in the archives of liberalism, pragmatism and new materialism, Samantha Deane explores the connection between how we teach children to think of themselves as democratic actors and the unceasing plague of gun violence. Juxtaposing two images of political agency, Deane connects an essentialized view of humans as masters of themselves, objects, and history with discourses that aims to train individuals to be autonomous and rational users of objects like guns. This liberal view, she contends, gives us no way to think about how objects, narratives, and norms contour the selves we claim to be. Deane posits another way. She suggests that we learn to attend to the ways in which our ability to act in the world is shared and distributed. In a society shot through with guns an enamored with individualism, the future of associational life depends on whether we learn to do democracy with the objects we hold dear.It requires a reckoning with our constitutive betweenness and efforts to educate children to think while enmeshed within the complex association of human + gun.
Samantha Deane is director of the Formative Leadership Education Project and an instructor of Formative Education at Boston College.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Education for Democracy: Eamonn Callan’s Liberal Democratic Education
Chapter Two: Sharing Agency: What Guns and Social Gender Norms Make Possible
Chapter Three: Democratic Education: The Grand Agency of Humans
Chapter Four: Educating For Shared Agency: Learning to Learn With GunsBibliographyAbout the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.11.2023 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-3344-9 / 1666933449 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-3344-4 / 9781666933444 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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