Paul Ricoeur: Empowering Education, Politics and Society
About this ebook
With Ricoeur, the readers can think differently: howto recognize and tackle racism and the democratic deficit, how to reduce epistemic injustice by learning how to speak out, how to move away from forced polarities and develop a pedagogy of hope as well as an acceptance of provisionality and the intractability of certain existential problems.
About the author
Dr. Alison Frances Scott-Baumann is Professor of Society and Belief in the Law, Media and Gender Department at SOAS, University of London and Principal Investigator of an AHRC project on Communities of Inquiry. She speaks on BBC Radio 4, has written for the Guardian and several higher education blogs, and she applies modern philosophy (Ricoeurian) to social justice issues. She is also conducting a deep mapping of curricula and extracurricular provision for Jewish and Israeli studies in the Bloomsbury universities, to establish excellence, gaps and room for improvement. With politicians, Alison has established an All-Party Parliamentary group (APPG) in Westminster called Communities of Inquiry across the generations and an advocacy group that brings together policy makers, politicians and academics and also provides the secretariat for the APPG.
