Guest Editor: Tomas Englund

JCS 38 (5), September 2006

Through his theoretical framework, Habermas provides some basic starting points for an analysis of the relationship between society and education. However, the implications for education can be interpreted in different ways. The papers in this special issue attempt to make use of the later works of Habermas in the field of education to pursue these implications.

Contents:

Tomas Englund, Introduction: Jurgen Habermas and education

Tomas Englund, Deliberative communication: a pragmatist proposal

Mikael Carleheden, Towards democratic foundations: a Habermasian perspective on the politics of education

Ylva Boman, The struggle between conflicting beliefs: on the promise of education

Klas Roth, Deliberation in national and post-national education