Historically, the connection and interplay between education and the public sphere is highly complex. The emergence of public education was closely linked to the transformation of knowledge during the Enlightenment and to the formation of the nation-state. As the "semantic child of the … 
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digital counter speech and reactance: critical potentials for teaching about racism
Digital counter speech in education
Whether it is a hateful posting in which a minority is disparaged or a propaganda video that combines resentment with fragments of conspiracy-theories, racist hate speech articulated via digital tools and platforms such as YouTube, TikTok or Instagram has …
editorial: how racism works: systemic injustices and the (false) promises of education
Racism constitutes an integral part of contemporary societies. Although there are probably few people who would openly call themselves racist, discrimination and oppression against people marked as non-white or “other” in some way are still omnipresent across the globe. The struggles connected with …
taming algorithms
Students were furious. All over the UK they rallied against a common foe. Their foe reduced their grades from As to Bs, from Bs to Cs and even worse. Many felt that they were treated unjustly. Holding up placards with statements such as “teachers know my potential, algorithms do not” their …
can solidarity be taught?
It was Aide et Action Benin who decided to launch a movement in this country in order to educate the population to donate, to show solidarity with one another, to enable a child who is lost somehow to have access to school. Because here the white person, excuse me, is still perceived as someone who …
towards a praxis of educational solidarity
Since World War II, with the decolonization of dozens of nation-states and the rise of global frameworks for advancing the right to education, more children have entered school than ever before in human history. Eighty percent of children worldwide currently attend school according to recent data …
expanded education and global integration: solidarity and conflict
A Globalized Schooled Society[1. Work on this essay was supported by the National Research Foundation (Korea): NRF-2017S1A3A2067636.]
Education has expanded and become a global institution, rapidly in the period since World War II, and even more in the neoliberal period since around 1990 (Baker, …
vaccination education subordinated to campaigning
Should education about vaccination be learning and accepting the views of authorities or should it be learning to think for oneself? There is a crucial tension between these two possibilities.
Vaccination is a public health measure designed to reduce disease. People are given vaccines, which are …
editorial: vaccination!
Public debates about the pros and cons of vaccination are highly emotionally charged and polarised. This is also the case in the context of contemporary controversies about proper responses to the COVID-19 pandemic (Drerup & Schweiger, 2020). Fears of a potential compulsory vaccination against …
quality education and professional teachers
French writer Albert Camus and his mother and brother escaped war-time France and settled in Algeria. His father, who returned to France, was killed in WWI. His mother was illiterate, and the family was very poor. A teacher, Louis Germain, gave young Camus a chance. After receiving the Nobel Prize …