The pedagogy of asylum as a utopia of hospitality. A review of basic assumptions

Rafał Włodarczyk

The pedagogy of asylum as a utopia of hospitality. A review of basic assumptions

Publication date: 2021

Philosophical Problems of Education, 2021, Volume 4 (2021), pp. 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.4467/25450948FPE.21.001.15166

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The pedagogy of asylum as a utopia of hospitality. A review of basic assumptions

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This paper aims at the presentation of ethical and political grounds of the pedagogy of asylum, which, in its assumptions, refers to concepts of such thinkers as Emmanuel Levinas, Erich Fromm, George Steiner, Hannah Arendt, Michael Walzer, Avishai Margalit, Jacques Derrida and Janusz Korczak. Utopia of hospitality, presented in its basic assumptions, constitutes a look at the social life, life of individuals and communities, as concentrated in asylums, while its author thinks that it forms an answer to modern challenges to Western democracies, education and politics in the “Age of Migration”.

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pedagogy of asylum, hospitality, utopia, other, contemporary philosophy

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* Artykuł jest poprawioną i znacznie rozszerzoną wersją tekstu “Gościnność wspólnot. W stronę pedagogiki azylu”, która ukazała się w pracy: Włodarczyk, 2009a, pp. 124–137.

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Information: Philosophical Problems of Education, 2021, Volume 4 (2021), pp. 1 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25450948FPE.21.001.15166

Article type: Original article

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Rafał Włodarczyk

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