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Knowledge, education and social change

Exploring efforts to move beyond objectivism and relativism

Victor Ali
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Victor Ali Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong   Abstract Learning to address the unprecedented, and increasingly existential, challenges confronting humanity requires the development of increased levels of intersubjective agreement about goals, normative principles and values, as well as effort to apply normative ideals to the needs of society. Yet deliberations […]

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Ali, V. (2022). Knowledge, education and social change: Exploring efforts to move beyond objectivism and relativism. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 42(1), 21-36. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac22.3569
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Edith Stein and the nature of knowledge

Jānis (John) T. Ozoliņš

Brief biography Edith Stein was born on October 12, 1891, in Breslau, Germany. She was the youngest of 11 children in a Jewish family. Her father died when she was two years old. At the age of 14, she gave up her Jewish faith, but it was not replaced by anything. She enrolled in 1911 […]

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Ozoliņš, J. (2020). Edith Stein and the nature of knowledge. PESA Agora. Retrieved from https://pesaagora.com/columns/edith-stein-and-the-nature-of-knowledge/

Jānis (John) T. Ozoliņš

Jānis (John) Tālivaldis Ozoliņš, FHERDSA, FPESA, FACE, LZA HZN is Professor in the College of Philosophy and Theology at University of Notre Dame Australia, Visiting Professor, Faculty of History and Philosophy, University of Latvia, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Australian Catholic University, and Adjunct Lecturer, Catholic Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne. His most recent book is Education and the Pursuit of Wisdom (Routledge, 2019)