Nextness: A Spatial Corrective to Temporalizing Migration and the Education of Newcomer Children
In our understanding, the critical issue for this book is that the notion of “next generation,” which legitimizes pedagogical efforts of passing the world on to newcomers, needs at least a doubling gesture of complication. We should read “nextness” in temporal and spatial terms simultaneously when considering whom the next generation is. “Next,” as typically construed in trans-generational pedagogical narratives, arrives later, but the word also means “next to us”; it arrives as neighbour or alien. In light of generally low fertility rates in the countries of the Global North who receive immigrants and are concerned with their own cultural heritage, the “spatial nextness” gains unprecedented weight in the dream of renewal by education. We claim that spatial nextness, concerning the newcomers from elsewhere, needs to be installed as permanent within the idea of education as renewal, as a means to pass what is good in our world to those who arrive. If that renewal is to be viable, it should be conceived responsibly in response to the world driven by climate catastrophes, wars, and massive migration.
Publisert i 2025
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