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This paper proposes a philosophical reconstruction of the subject of the educator as the agent of curriculum. This political ontology of the subject suggests a process of reconstruction consisting of several stages: the disclosure of ideology and complicity, the investigation of the process of interpellation, and the creation of a fundamentally collective educational practice. It is only on the basis of the effective staging of this crisis at the heart of the teaching subject that a meaningful critical pedagogy and curriculum can be articulated.

This article is a philosophical analysis which explores the concept of world estrangement in Arendt’s analysis of the crisis in education. The author explains what Arendt means when she contrasts an education for the world with an education for life. The author also shows how, in light of the deep philosophical and material roots of world-alienation, orienting teachers toward the world and away from a preoccupation with the concerns of “life” will demand a rethinking of the core of the teacher education curriculum.

This article is philosophical in nature, focusing on several of Hannah Arendt’s published works. The article examines Hannah Arendt’s analysis of the problem of modern world alienation, with particular attention to the ways in which predominant modes of thinking contribute to this problem. The author argues that educational research and practices must be grounded in an Arendtian conception of thinking if we are to reclaim the world.

In this article, the author argues for a reconsideration of the teachers college tradition within teacher ed curriculum. The author’s thesis is that we must return to the teachers college tradition if we expect to flourish as a real profession and contribute to the civic health of our nation. The author will make three points to explain the teachers college tradition. 1) We need a different and better understanding of our past. 2) The future of the teaching profession depends on our repairing our moral foundations. 3) The author wants to demonstrate how the revival of the teaching profession depends on the individual acts we take on our home campuses and within our local communities.