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The ‘feverish’ society and the aims of education

Marianna Papastephanou

Marianna Papastephanou Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus   Abstract Borrowing the Platonic metaphor of a ‘feverish’ society, this article discusses the argument that a critical stance toward our contemporary realities makes a revisiting of educational aims more urgent. The article begins with how aims have been tackled in educational philosophy. The head-on […]

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Papastephanou, M. (2024). The ‘feverish’ society and the aims of education. ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, 44(2), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.46786/ac24.4323

Knowledge, education and social change

Exploring efforts to move beyond objectivism and relativism

Victor Ali

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