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Walls and Laws: Proximity, distance and the doubleness of the border
(2011)
In this article, I explore the way in which proximity and distance have been made relevant to cosmopolitanism and I discuss the significance contemporary theory attributes to border crossing. By employing colonial border ...
Exploring Habermas's Critical Engagement with Chomsky
(2012)
his article explores Jürgen Habermas’s critical employment of Noam Chomsky’s insights and the philosophical assumptions that motivate or justify Habermas’s early enrichment of his universal pragmatics with material drawn ...
Virtue-epistemology and the Chagos unknown: questioning the indictment of knowledge transmission
(2015)
Though concerned with knowledge, this article begins with unknown political events that are ignored by the culture and educational practices of the societies in whose name the events took place. The questions that these ...
Cosmopolitan dice recast
(2017)
This article argues that hegemonic cosmopolitan narrativity fails to frame a complex cosmopolitan normativity. The hegemonic cosmopolitan narrative celebrates a mobile selfhood merely hospitable to the encountered, mobile ...
From consensus to dissensus and back again: Habermas and Lyotard
(2014)
The modernism-versus-postmodernism divide has to a large extent emerged from major disagreements among philosophers of both sides whose engagement with one another’s work had otherwise been rather minimal and non-thorough. ...
Material specters: International conflicts, disaster management, and educational projects
(2011)
In this essay, Marianna Papastephanou discusses three books-Michalinos Zembylas's The Politics of Trauma in Education; Sigal Ben-Porath's Citizenship Under Fire: Democratic Education in Times of Conflict; and Kenneth ...
Locke’s Children? Rousseau and the Beans (Beings?) of the Colonial Learner
(2014)
Rousseau’s story about Emile having his first moral lesson in property rights by planting beans in a garden plot has educationally been discussed from various perspectives. What remains unexplored in such readings, however, ...
The conflict of the faculties: Educational research, inclusion, philosophy and boundary discourses
(2010)
The aim of this article is to examine ways in which localized research runs the risk of becoming a boundary discourse in a negative sense. The exaggerated emphasis on immanent critique, contextualization and incommensurability ...
Edusemiotics and Karl-Otto Apel's transcendental semiotics
(2016)
The semiotic turn and the twentieth century critique of the philosophy of consciousness presented a unique challenge and stressed the problematic status of old binary oppositions such as the subject versus the object, the ...
Needing ‘Tomorrow as Fish Need Water’: Dystopia, Utopia, and Freire’s Pedagogy
(2016)
In this article, I discuss the philosophical-educational attention to Freire’s utopian pedagogy of the future and I argue that equal attention should be due to Freire’s dystopian account of the present. To this end, Freire’s ...