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Teaching for Love of the World

Hannah Arendt on the Complexities of the Educational Praxis

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Crucial to the idea of normative professionalization in this publication is the notion of amor complexitatis, as described by Kunneman. For us as a research group, however, it is a notion which remains hard to define. Kunneman describes amor complexitatis as a postmodern acceptance of the ‘muddy complexities’ which a professional is confronted with – an image coined by Schön in his work on the reflective practitioner (Schön, 1987).

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  1. Hogeschool Utrecht, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Anouk Zuurmond

  2. Universiteit van Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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  1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Cok Bakker

  2. Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Cok Bakker

  3. Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Nicolina Montesano Montessori

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Zuurmond, A. (2016). Teaching for Love of the World. In: Bakker, C., Montessori, N.M. (eds) Complexity in Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-764-1_4

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