{"product_id":"the-cynical-educator-9781906948351","title":"The Cynical Educator","description":"\u003cp\u003eGround down, disenchanted, but committed to education. Unable to quit, yet deploring everything education has become. We suffer a weakened and weakening cynicism. This cynicism exploits the last remaining educational commitments of an otherwise broken workforce, draining that workforce of its final pleasure: Revolt. Our cynicism is reactionary and conditional - exhausting us where it might invigorate, rendering us complicit, giving safe passage to bad temper - but can be reclaimed. This book claims we need more cynicism, not less. With \u003cem\u003eThe Cynical Educator \u003c\/em\u003ea revived, militant Cynicism affronts us. Drawing on a long history of religious denial and philosophical intrigue, it brings our educational bad faith to the surface. It confronts the educated with the fruit of their conceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAllen, Ansgar:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ansgar Allen is a Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield and author of Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason.","brand":"Mayflybooks\/Ephemera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857028845842,"sku":"9781906948351","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e3e572c7-6208-497b-8691-7f982585b69d.jpg?v=1737518396","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cynical-educator-9781906948351","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}