Halpin, D;
(2016)
Dancing with eyes wide open: On the role of nostalgia in education.
London Review of Education
, 14
(3)
pp. 31-40.
10.18546/LRE.14.3.03.
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Abstract
Nostalgia rightly elicits suspicion, even derision, for to give oneself up to longing for something from the past runs the risk of compromising one's capacity to act effectively in the present. But this does not make nostalgia, by definition, either sentimentally reactionary or wistfully unreflective. On the contrary, in the education context and elsewhere, it can be the exact opposite, though its influence, which is legitimate, particularly when articulated through the optic of tradition, needs to be constrained and justified by good argument and, where relevant, sound empirical research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Dancing with eyes wide open: On the role of nostalgia in education |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.18546/LRE.14.3.03 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18546/LRE.14.3.03 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Halpin. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | education policy; nostalgia; tradition |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1531966 |
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