The Rebel
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Albert Camus and Education
Aidan Hobson Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
vii
Introduction
xiii
Chapter 1: The Myth of Sisyphus
1
The Broad and Enduring Appeal of the Camusean Absurd The Emerging Educational Interest The Predominant Theme: The Absurd and Pedagogy The Imagery of Sisyphus and Education Education and Sisyphus Educative Feelings Exile The Absurd Limits Absurd Reasoning Absurd Learner Absurd Creation Chapter 2: Exile and the Kingdom
1 3 4 8 10 12 13 14 16 17 18 20 23
Chapter 3: The Outsider
23 23 25 28 36 37 39 41
Looking Back at This Article The Importance of the Stranger The Absurd Doubt Limits Ambiguity Dialogue
41 41 42 43 45 47 50
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Solidarity and Hope 51 Creativity53 Diversity and Hope 54 Conclusion56 Chapter 4: The Rebel
57
Looking Back at This Article 57 Introduction57 Background and the Critique of the Rebel 58 Authentic Revolt and Education 61 Education and Failed Rebellion 64 Teaching67 Conclusion68 Chapter 5: The Fall
71
Looking Back at This Article 71 Introduction72 The Stranger and Its Place in Educational Theory 72 The Experience of Little Ease 77 Education and the Little Ease 82 Chapter 6: The Plague
85
Introduction85 Plague and Education 86 Plague and Exile 89 Education and Exile 91 Oran as an Education System 95 The Habitat of Strangeness 96 Concluding Remarks
99
References103
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PREFACE
I said that the world is absurd but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of the irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart. (Camus, 1955a, p. 26) From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one’s passion, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt, that is the whole question. (p. 27) A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it. (p. 35) The six works interpreted in this monograph were considered over a 14 year period. However, five of the six chapters were written b
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