Research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education

The research group Philosophical and Critical Studies in Education generates knowledge about transformative process that effect institutions and people through engaging with critical studies of theoretical and philosophical perspectives on education and learning.

The group's ongoing studies include:

  1. critical inquiries regarding norms, knowledge, aesthetics and ethics
  2. theories of democracy, citizenship and cosmopolitan education, including social justice, power, migration and human rights
  3. educational science and methodological issues ranging from analytical philosophy to feminist perspectives.
Department of Education

New dissertation challenges the common idea of education

In a new dissertation at Stockholm University Rama Alshoufani challenges the common idea that education is mainly a tool for achieving specific, predetermined goals. It highlights how this instrumental view can limit the meaning of education, reducing it to a set of outcomes rather than exploring its deeper significance in human life. In the dissertation she explores the reasons and consequences of such instrumental view from a philosophical perspective and suggests a different approach to thinking about and considering education.

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