Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma (Culture & Education Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847694631 ISBN 13: 9780847694631

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK), 2000

Synopsis

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and subversive of the humane character of existence. This pedagogical attention to practices of remembrance reflects the growing cognizance that hope for a just and compassionate future lies in the sustained, if troubled, working through of these issues.

About this title

About the Author

Roger I. Simon teaches at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively in the area of critical pedagogy and cultural studies and is the author of Teaching Against the Grain: Texts for a Pedagogy of Possibility.

Sharon Rosenberg is assistant professor at York University in Toronto, where she teaches in the School of Women's Studies. Her scholarly work attends to questions of feminist remembrance practice in the wake of ongoing traumatic violences against women.

Claudia Eppert recently completed her doctoral disseration at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto. Her work focuses on the ethico-pedagogical possibilities for a responsive/responsible practice of reading contemporary literature of historical witness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0847694631
• ISBN 13: 9780847694631
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, Claudia Eppert