Levinas and Education - At the Intersection of Faith and Reason (Electronic book text)

This first book-length collection on Levinas and education gathers new texts written especially for this volume by an international group of scholars well known for their work in philosophy, educational theory, and on Levinas. It provides an introduction to some of Levinas' major themes of ethics, justice, hope, hospitality, forgiveness and more, as its contributing authors address some fundamental educational issues such as: what it means to be a teacher; what it means to learn from a teacher; the role of language in the curriculum; literature, ethics, and education; moral education and human relations in schools; ethics of responsibility and philosophical-pedagogical discourse; educational hospitality and interculturalism; unconditional responsibility and education; educating for participatory democratic citizenship; the pedagogy of peace; logic, rationality, and ethics; and, connecting teaching to spirituality.Levinas always insisted that his aim was not to provide "a program," and accordingly, it is not the intent of the authors to look in Levinas' texts for a set of guidelines, rules, or precepts to be applied to education.