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Albert Camus and Education

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Aidan Hobson

    1. Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

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  • This is the first publication focusing exclusively on Albert Camus, education and pedagogy.
  • The book is a comprehensive summary of the academic and popular conversation to date – how the work of Camus relates to education.
  • The book features a new interpretation of how teachers and learners might positively engage existential anxiety.

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. The Myth of Sisyphus

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 1-21

  3. Exile and the Kingdom

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 23-40

  4. The Outsider

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 41-56

  5. The Rebel

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 57-69

  6. The Fall

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 71-84

  7. The Plague

    • Aidan Hobson
    Pages 85-97

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 99-109
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About this book

This book continues the story about education and the absurd. Its specific focus is on the work of Albert Camus. It tries to summarise the ways in which his writing has already inspired and influenced educational thinking and practice, and it offers a new set of educational interpretations of six of his major works. These set out the exciting challenge about how we might think about the purposes and practices of education in the future, how to talk about these, plan and deliver. Using the work of Albert Camus in this way is an attempt to bring him and his ideas closer to educational discussions. This is a deliberate attempt to show the synergy between some of his major concepts and those that are already cornerstones of educational discourses. Read from an educational perspective the work of Albert Camus also provides guidance and invigorates the imagination as to how education can respond to those increasingly complex, existential crises it finds itself connected to. For educational people interested in these questions this book will hopefully motivate a re-reading of Camus and a brave, new lens on practice.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Aidan Hobson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Albert Camus and Education

  • Authors: Aidan Hobson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-920-1

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-920-1Published: 22 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: CX, 20

  • Topics: Education, general

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