Postcolonial Education and National Identity by Rowena Azada-... - 9781350433342

Postcolonial Education and National IdentityAn Arendtian Re-imagination\nAuthor(s): Rowena Azada-Palacios\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350433342, 978-1350433342\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 2025 Book Award\n\nRecognizing the strategic role that national identities play in post-colonial struggles for justice, this book conceptualizes a new approach to teaching national identity that, following Hannah Arendt, emphasizes childrens ability to renew culture. The book uses the Philippine colonial experience as a case study, and includes a genealogy of Hannah Arendts concept of the social, including an analysis of how she used this idea to explore the role that schools play within the political community. Azada-Palacios problematizes the way that national identity is valued as an educational goal in Philippine schools and the way that Philippine citizenship educ.