Nussbaum over belang van onderwijs met werelds perspectief

Op donderdag 27 juni 2013 geeft Martha Nussbaum een lezing aan Instituut voor Social Studies in Den Haag, met als titel 'Education in the global context: an exercise in building understanding and concern, empathy and sympathy’. Caroline Suransky, universitair docent globaliseringsstudies van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek, is referent. 

“Students also need to develop a knowledge of the world, an increasingly complicated interlocking world. This includes a knowledge of world history, the major world religions and ethnic traditions. What really brings these aspects to life is the training of the imagination. We’re all born with the capacity to imagine the point of view of another person, but we typically don’t develop it, we use it very narrowly, just trying to imagine how to get what we want from other people. We need to broaden and deepen our imagination by learning how the world looks from the point of view of people different from ourselves and often distant from ourselves, if we’re to make intelligent choices. The accent should always be on a cultivation of imagination relative to the particular blind spots that any culture is likely to have.”

(Martha Nussbaum in conversation with Linda Johnson in Forum Magazine (EAIE), summer 2012)

Nussbaum is hoogleraar filosofie en publiciste. In 1999 ontving ze een eredoctoraat van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek.

Programma 

'Education in the global context: an exercise in building understanding and concern, empathy and sympathy’
 
The event will take place on 27 June 2013 from 13.30 - 15.00 hrs
in the Aula of the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague.
 
The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion. Panellists include:
 
Dr. Cissie Fu, Director of Studies (BA) at LUC (www.lucthehague.nl)
Dr. Carolina Suransky, University of Humanistic Studies (www.uvh.nl).
 
Registeren: http://www.iss.nl/forms/education_in_the_global_context/
 
More informatie: www.iss.nl
 

Op donderdag 27 juni 2013 geeft Martha Nussbaum een lezing aan Instituut voor Social Studies in Den Haag, met als titel 'Education in the global context: an exercise in building understanding and concern, empathy and sympathy’. Caroline Suransky, universitair docent globaliseringsstudies van de Universiteit voor Humanistiek, is referent.