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Learning Diversity

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Authors:
  1. Hans Karl Peterlini

    1. University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

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  • This is an open access book, which means you have free and unrestricted access

  • Sensitive and perceptive analysis of diversity's significance for individuals and societies

  • Case studies of young ethnicized people

  • A phenomenological approach

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Preface: A Weak Pedagogy in a Rough World?

    • Hans Karl Peterlini
    Pages 1-6Open Access
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  4. The (dis-)order of Experience—Facing the Splitting of Learning and Living

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. The Split School. From Selective Normality Concepts to a Phenomenology of Diversity

      • Hans Karl Peterlini
      Pages 127-138Open Access
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    3. Dialogue with Adorno. How to Deal with Right-Wing Populism, Racism and Institutional Cruelization

      • Hans Karl Peterlini
      Pages 139-161Open Access
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    4. Searching for the Lost Paradise

      • Hans Karl Peterlini
      Pages 163-177Open Access
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    5. On This Side of the Splitting Categories Lies the One World: Conclusions and Reflections for the Future of Education

      • Hans Karl Peterlini
      Pages 179-189Open Access
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  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-219
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About this book

This Open-Access-book explores diversity in its ambivalence. On the one side, we love to describe diversity as a resource for personal, social, economic, and cultural growth. On the other side, categories of differences often lead to discrimination or serve as justifications for privileges. They can cause exclusion and, conversely, promote the self-constitution of discriminated subjects and groups.
The book moves within this tension of exclusion and belonging. Case studies of young ethnicized people vividly depict the interwovenness of identity-building and diversity. Theoretically, the book examines the psychosocial and anthropological conditions for constructing the Other. Sharp divisions between We and the Other, between social and national groups, and between humans and nature have devastating, life-threatening consequences. Dichotomous split-offs divide people, nations and the whole world. So, how do we deal with diversity? The author does not provide simple recipes but engages in a phenomenology of diversity that does not press life and its manifestations into categories but keeps them in a limbo of attention by affirming and doubting differences.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Hans Karl Peterlini

About the author

Hans Karl Peterlini is Professor of Education at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria) and holder of the Unesco Chair "Global Citizenship Education - Culture of Diversity and Peace". His research focuses on learning for a better living together between humans, nature and animals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning Diversity

  • Authors: Hans Karl Peterlini

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40548-9

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023

  • License: CC BY

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-40547-2Published: 11 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-40548-9Published: 10 March 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 219

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Science Education

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