Karem Roitman

Seeking the Perfect World (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Discussion of Global Challenges for the Bright and Curious

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Seeking the Perfect World guides readers through thoughtful discussions of 21st century challenges while providing everything needed to critically engage with current events and personal dilemmas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040264478
• Artikelnr.: 72282729

Autorenporträt

Karem Roitman, Ph.D. (DPhil Oxford) is a lecturer in political philosophy and global development for the Open University and a consultant and public speaker on education, creative leadership, diversity, and belonging. She is also Director of Thinkers Meet Up Ltd (TMU), which runs enrichment courses for gifted and 2e students. She has worked in education for over 20 years, teaching from primary to postgraduate students, and training hundreds of teachers around the world on project-based learning, and twenty-first-century skills. She is a passionate advocate for inclusive, intercultural education, and critical global citizenship.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introducing the Party -- A time-travelling affair to do political
philosophy 1: Time traveling to party with philosophers 2: What is
political philosophy (or why you should read this book) 3: How to read this
book 4: A quick note on utopias and dystopias Part 2: Excuse me, who are
you? Starting the party with questions about identity and human nature 5:
What do you want? Discussing the ideal life 6: What makes you, you?
Discussing identity 7: Why do we go to war? Discussing human nature and
international relations Part 3: Who said you could dance on the table?
Questions about rules, contracts, rights, and wrongs. 8: Who should rule?
Discussing the perfect government 9: How do you know that? Discussing the
perfect education 10: Who owns what? Discussing ownership and reparations
11: Should humans be like geese? Discussing migration and citizenship Part
4: Should we eat a guest or 3-D print sushi? Questions about nature and
technology 12: Should nature have rights? Discussing how humans relate to
nature 13: Is having pets immoral? Discussing our favourite animals 14:
Would you like to become a cyborg? Discussing transhumanism 15: Should we
be afraid of AI? Discussing the future of technology Part 5: Justice as a
parting gift,Questions about language, and beauty, and justice for the past
and the future 16: How do you say knowledge? Questions of language,
knowledge, and justice 17: Should the government pay for opera? Questions
about art, beauty, and politics 18: Does the past affect the future?
Questions about colonialism, knowledge, and justice 19: How can we build a
just world? Questions about justice, diversity, and the future Part 6:
Until we meet again 20: Conclusion