On January 21, 2025, the day after he was sworn in for his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled: "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity" (Exec. Order no. 14,173, 2025). In it, Trump decreed that the "longstanding …
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editorial: far-right actors and education: the global circulation of their ideas, agendas, and policies
editorial: epistemologies of data
Data analysis has always been part of scientific research. For example, while the PISA assessments have significantly informed the educational discourse and the media since the turn of the twenty-first century, the collection and international comparison of quantitative data on a large scale has a …
editorial: segregation
editorial: frontiers of solidarity
Solidarity is one of those multifarious ideas that appears to gain popularity in times of crisis – and is called for by politicians, the media, celebrities, and the general public, (sometimes) from diametrically opposed ideological positions (Chouliaraki, 2013; Lahusen, 2020; Wallaschek, 2020). The …
editorial: the fatigue of critique?
editorial: vaccination!
editorial: Provincializing ‘Western Education’
Theories of ‘education’ (broadly construed) have traditionally relied on premises and frameworks that may be called Euro- or Western-centric. Allegedly universal theories of education or the educated person in most cases did not and do not sufficiently take into account the existing global plurality …
editorial: exploring the relationship of money and education
In capitalism, the significance of both money and education for individuals as well as societies as a whole is—mostly—uncontested. Both are desirable “assets” that seem to be important in order to live/provide a “good” life. However, when it comes to the relationship between the two, matters can get …
editorial: teachers – being in control or being controlled?
editorial: education in the anthropocene
editorial: academic lives
editorial: “human, all too human?” transhumanism, posthumanism and the “end of education”
editorial: civic education after trump
The rise of right-wing populist movements across Europe and the world, and the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States, are perceived as a massive crisis of liberal democracy. The label `Trump´ has since then symbolised a widespread perplexity and confusion that pervades …