Philosophy of education in a new key: Constraints and possibilities in present times with regard to dignity

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dc.contributor.authorRoth, Klas
dc.contributor.authorMollvik, Lia
dc.contributor.authorAlshoufani, Rama
dc.contributor.authorAdami, Rebecca
dc.contributor.authorDineen, Katy
dc.contributor.authorMajlesi, Fariba
dc.contributor.authorPeters, Michael A.
dc.contributor.authorTesar, Marek
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-02T16:45:19Z
dc.date.available2020-12-02T16:45:19Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-29
dc.date.updated2020-12-02T16:35:47Z
dc.description.abstractHuman beings as imperfect rational beings face continuous challenges, one of them has to do with the lack of recognizing and respecting our inner dignity in present times. In this collective paper, we address the overall theme—Philosophy of Education in a New Key (see Peters et al., 2020) from various perspectives related to dignity. We address in particular some of the constraints and possibilities with regard to this issue in various settings such as education and society at large. Klas Roth discusses, for example, that it is not uncommon that the value of human beings has to do with their price in, inter alia, their social, cultural, political and economic settings throughout the world. He argues that such a focus does not necessarily draw attention to the inner dignity of human beings, but that human beings ought to do so in education and society at large. Lia Mollvik discusses views of inner and outer dignity, and argues that there needs to be a balance in between them, and that the balance ought to be acknowledged in education. Rama Alshoufani discusses the classification of human beings in terms of various diagnoses related to the asserted dysfunction of the brain, and she argues that such classification does paradoxically not necessarily respect people with such diagnoses as ends in themselves. On the contrary, she argues that their inner dignity is not respected, but that it should be. Other such failures are due to the lack of inner dignity when it comes to Children’s rights as discussed by Rebecca Adami, and to the lack of recognition of human beings’ vulnerability as discussed by Katy Dineen. Fariba Majlesi criticizes a too strong emphasis on substantive notions of humanist education, which seem to hinder new ways of thinking; she argues that it is necessary to acknowledge the latter in and through education in order to preserve the dignity of human beings. Dignity, it is argued throughout the paper, has an inner moral worth, and is beyond price.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationRoth, K., Mollvik, L., Alshoufani, R., Adami, R., Dineen, K., Majlesi, F., Peters, M. A. and Tesar, M. (2020) 'Philosophy of education in a new key: Constraints and possibilities in present times with regard to dignity', Educational Philosophy and Theory, pp. 1-32. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1851189en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00131857.2020.1851189en
dc.identifier.endpage32en
dc.identifier.issn0013-1857
dc.identifier.journaltitleEducational Philosophy and Theoryen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10809
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1851189
dc.rights© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectDignityen
dc.subjectEducationen
dc.subjectKanten
dc.subjectPriceen
dc.subjectNeurodiversityen
dc.subjectChildrenâ s rightsen
dc.subjectHumanismen
dc.subjectHumanist educationen
dc.titlePhilosophy of education in a new key: Constraints and possibilities in present times with regard to dignityen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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