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This chapter presents my rationale for teaching in a Philosophies of Education course the gorgeous contemporary work of historical fiction by Colum McCann, This Side of Brightness; I contextualize this rationale in educational philosopher Deborah Britzman’s wild education. My purpose is to suggest how formal education’s preoccupation with the easy binary of rightness-wrongness, the illusion of the one right answer, keeps us focused on all but the really important questions about what it means to be a human being and how we will or won’t collectively thrive.
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Regenspan, B. (2014). Wild Education. In: Haunting and the Educational Imagination. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-818-3_6
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