On May, 29, 2025 Harvard University gathered for graduation day – and the New York Times titled that the graduation blended “protest and pride” when gathering with family and friends for commencement (Russel & Herszenhorn, 2025). Graduates brought globes and held them up in order to emphasize … 
public sphere
redefining school education and the public sphere in the age of globalization
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 …
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
1. Insufficient introductory words
The term 'public sphere' has been used in various contexts in the debate on educational science in recent years. But amid this heterogeneous discourse, a fundamental problem with the concept can be found: the public sphere is pedagogically riven.
Firstly, …
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 …
editorial: education and the public sphere
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 …