Educating about, through and for human rights and democracy in uncertain times: The promise of the pedagogy of the community of philosophical inquiry
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2025-01-01
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00131857
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14695812
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2-s2.0-85214210871
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Educational Philosophy and Theory
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Educational Philosophy and Theory (2025)
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Boontinand V., Forstenzer J. Educating about, through and for human rights and democracy in uncertain times: The promise of the pedagogy of the community of philosophical inquiry. Educational Philosophy and Theory (2025). doi:10.1080/00131857.2024.2444414 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/102840
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Educating about, through and for human rights and democracy in uncertain times: The promise of the pedagogy of the community of philosophical inquiry
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In a climate of growing intolerance and violence, marked by various forms of injustice across the democratic world, human rights and democratic citizenship education have the potential to help cultivate knowledge, values and skills or competences in the young that are necessary to foster a culture of human rights and democracy. However, education about, through and for human rights and democracy needs to be critical and transformative by going beyond delivering content knowledge and prescribing values to practically developing distinctly democratic habits and dispositions. We argue that the Community of Philosophical Inquiry as developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp can contribute to creating a human rights and democratic culture by facilitating democratic experiences and the co-construction of knowledge through dialogue. This pedagogic process can be used to confront prejudices, discrimination, and violence as well as to address the problems of alienation facing young people today.