Determining which people we should look to for personal guidance and what role they should play in shaping our lives is a perennial issue of moral and philosophical inquiry. Although our particular answers to these questions change in different historical, sociopolitical and educational contexts, … 
democratic education
revisiting “citizenship under fire”
I moved to the United States from Israel, where war is weaved into the fabric of civic life, where it affects political structures and partisan positions, businesses, schools, and private life. At that time, the second intifada was raging, a time of active hostilities, and I was looking forward to a …
editorial: education in times of war
The odd thing is that no matter how much we learn about the horror of war, there are always people eager to be part of it, at least until they have actually experienced it.
Nel Noddings (2012, p. 11)
According to a popular saying, the first casualty of war is truth. In times of war, calls for …
Reply: Response to Kwok Kuen Tsang’s ‘Ideological Disempowerment of Teachers’
Kwok Kuen Tsang argues that teachers are emotionally negatively impacted by ideological disempowerment. Ideological disempowerment goes beyond technical disempowerment, which is related to deskilling work, as educational ideologies reflected in an institution can alienate teachers’ sense of the …