Journal title EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Author/s Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1 Special Issue
Language English Pages 16 P. 13-28 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/erpoa1SI-2025oa19364
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<p>This article explores the complex relationship between education, democracy, and social justice, challenging the dominant view that education should serve as an instrument for achieving political goals, including equity and inclusion. Drawing on post-critical educational theories, particularly the works of Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière, the authors argue that education is an autonomous, intergenerational practice centered on introducing newcomers to the common world, fostering love and care for it, and enabling its renewal. The instrumentalization of education for social justice, they contend, undermines its essence by prioritizing critique over affirmation and imposing anti-educational practices like censorship and stultification. Similarly, the article criticizes the conflation of democracy with social justice, emphasizing that democracy is rooted in radical equality and collective deliberation around shared concerns, rather than the rectification of historical injustices. Ultimately, the authors advocate for a “thing-centered” approach to education and democracy, grounded in trust in the world and its shared durability.</p>
Keywords: Education;Democracy;Social Justice;Post-critical pedagogy;Trust in the World
Joris Vlieghe, Piotr Zamojski, Post-critical Pedagogy and Social Justice. Thing Avoidance or Trust in the World in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 1 Special Issue/2025, pp 13-28, DOI: 10.3280/erpoa1SI-2025oa19364