Research project Dignity and Education
My research project delves into normative ethics within the field of education. I explore different philosophical conceptions of dignity, such as for example those of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Martha Nussbaum, and discuss their potential relevance for education.
I focus particularly on the relevance dignity can have on learning relationships between children and adults in compulsory educational settings, using both fictional and non-fictional narratives as access points into philosophical reflection and argument. The thesis offers a critique of educational practices that are overly focused on attributed values, such as marketable skills, offering dignity as a regulative ideal to counter-balance such tendencies and as a way to imagine other meanings for education.
Project members
Project managers
Lia Bahizi
Universitetslektor
Members
Niclas Rönnström, Main Supervisor
