Abstract: Ethical-political education is an area of continuous disputes and conflicting beliefs, values and world-views related to its embedded complexity embracing social, cultural and not least political community and ...

Sometime around 500 BCE, Heraclitus is supposed to have said that it is impossible to step in the same river twice. Since then, the problem of being and change has never left Western philosophy. Evidently important in and ...

Den franske sosiologen Pierre Bourdieus kultursosiologi er blitt omfavnet av nordiske pedagoger i flere årtier. På 70-tallet brukte samfunnskritiske pedagoger Bourdieus undersøkelse av det franske skolesystemet som belegg ...

My ambition with this chapter is to throw some lights on the close link between “democracy” and “education” and their mutual interdependence. I hope to do so by performing a three-step philosophical analysis of an event ...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a buzzword in contemporary professional debates, for example, in education, medicine, psychiatry, and social policy. It is known as the “what works” agenda, and its focus is on the use of ...

This introductory chapter develops the overall research focus and the aim of the present special issue ‘Gender segregation in vocational education’. Against the backdrop of strong horizontal gender segregation in vocational ...

How do institutional settings and their embedded policy principles affect gender-typed enrolment in educational programmes? Based on gender-sensitive theories on career choice, we hypothesised that gender segregation in ...

Dagens profesjonsutøvere er omgitt av et mangfold av kunnskapsressurser. Dette skyldes blant annet økt kunnskapsproduksjon og en rask teknologisk utvikling. Disse kunnskapsressursene former det daglige arbeidet, men er ...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore the contexts that teachers can create to promote collaborative learning in 3D virtual learning environments. The authors report on the findings of a case study using the 3D virtual ...