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Bildung and the road from a classical into a global and postcolonial concept

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: In this article the author shows how a European classical form of bildung has developed in our time into a postcolonial, or a new global form of bildung. The main components of the concept of bildung are described as well as a suggestion of what we can mean by the postcolonial. Thereafter the author elaborate on the relationship between the universal and the particular and discusses what we can mean by a global concept of bildung.

Source: Confero Essays on Education Philosophy and Politics

DOI: 10.3384/confero.2001-4562.140604b

Author: Bernt Gustavsson

Institution: Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Language: English

Topic: Education, Philosophy, and Society

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2165755243

FWCI: 12.23

Cites: 36

Cited by: 34

Related to: 10