Education for "a better world" : is it still possible?

Zgaga, Pavel (author)

The belief in continuous progress towards a “better world” and the conviction that good is associated with knowledge and learning have a long tradition. On these bases, expectations have arisen that education substantially contributes to a “better world”. The paper reconsiders this contribution from the aspect of modern progress made in the internationalisation and globalisation of education. The concept of education is discussed in relation to the cosmopolitanism of the Enlightenment, 19$^{th}$ and 20$^{th}$ century nationalisms, 20th century internationalism, the “Europeanisation” process and the contemporary age of globalism. Against the “monocausal view” of globalism, the author reaffirms the recognition of a full range of educational purposes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: aims of education, nationalism, internationalism, better world, cosmopolitanism, globalism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2011
• Number of pages: Str. 331-343
• Numbering: Vol. 2, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-35427
• UDC: 37.01
• ISSN on article: 2000-4508
• DOI: 10.3402/edui.v2i2.21984
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8800585

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• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Education inquiry
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Umeå University, Umeå School of Education
• ISSN: 2000-4508
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8206921

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: boljši svet, globalizacija, kozmopolitizem, vzgojni cilji, nacionalizem, internacionalizem