Rapid globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the 21st century have contributed to transforming education and the public sphere defined by the nation state into a transnational dimension of the public sphere that transcends national boundaries. In particular, the consolidation of …
public sphere
global public sphere or fragmentary, ever-diminishing publics?
Jürgen Habermas (1989) is well-known for his analysis of the structural transformation of the bourgeois public sphere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which became synonymous with the flourishing of democracy and liberal modernity. The book was first published in 1962 (1989 in English) and …
assembly & public sphere
Little Rock, Arkansas. Hannah Arendt, Ralph Ellison and Danielle Allen on education and the public sphere
On September 4, 1957, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford set off for Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was well aware that she was not wanted there, that she was entering a world in which she should have no place. Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision Brown v. Board …