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Learning by Undoing, "Democracy and Education," and John Dewey, the Colonial Traveler
(Education Sciences, 2017)
The centennial anniversary of John Dewey's "Democracy and Education" has been celebrated this year in a reconstructive and utility-based spirit. The article considers this spirit and the need to complement it with a ...
Being and Becoming Cosmopolitan: Higher Education and the Cosmopolitan Self
(International Journal of Higher Education, 2013)
Much higher education (and teacher education in particular) aims to cultivate and promote cosmopolitan identity either through direct modular provisions or through student exchanges and other cultural encounters. The aim ...
Book Reviews
(2011)
The article reviews several books, including "Heidegger & the Question of Psychology: Zollikon & Beyond," by Mark Letteri, "The Sarkozy Phenomenon," by Nick Hewlett and "Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in ...
The "Lifeblood" of Science and Its Politics: Interrogating Epistemic Curiosity as an Educational Aim
(Education Sciences, 2016)
Social- and virtue-epistemologies connect intellectual and moral concerns in ways significant for education and its theory. For most educationists, epistemic and ethical virtues are no longer dissociated. However, many ...
Concentric, Vernacular and Rhizomatic Cosmopolitanisms
(2016)
This concluding chapter (coda) begins with a brief account of the geometrical metaphor of concentric circles, its employment in cosmopolitan literature and its relevance to selfhood. Then, polycentric challenges to this ...
To mould or to bring out? Human nature, anthropology and educational utopianism
(2014)
Against narrow understandings of educational research, this article defends the relevance of philosophical anthropology to ethico-political education and contests its lack of space in the philosophy of education. My ...
Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
(Springer, 2016)
This volume discusses perspectives on cosmopolitanism, as well as concepts and the work of key figures. For example, it examines educational, philosophical and historical perspectives, deals with such issues as citizenship, ...
Eurocentrism beyond the 'universalism vs. particularism' dilemma: Habermas and derrida's joint plea for a new Europe
(2011)
Is it Eurocentric on the part of western philosophers (Habermas, Derrida) or of researchers in human sciences to set out from a specific locality (Europe) to formulate ethico-political ideals with universal aspirations? ...