Het onmeetbare handelen. Hannah Arendt over de fragiliteit van de opvoeding

Abstract

Both family life and school education are confronted with growing demands from politics and society for showing results that can be controlled and accounted for. The state and its institutions increasingly deploy policy instruments that not only regulate the ‘input’ of people and resources, but that also seek to guarantee a maximum ‘output’. Economic thinking puts educational thinking under pressure. As a reaction a counter movement is rising that seeks its inspiration in traditional and new sources. In this article I present an analysis of the political thought of Hannah Arendt and its relevancy for the educational field. Its central notion is that of the fragility of what Arendts calls ‘acting’.