Justice, Education, and the World of Today

Inga Bostad is Professor of Philosophy, Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.Marianna Papastephanou is Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.Torill Strand is Professor of Education, Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway.

• Introduction PART I – The Ontological and Socio-political Grounds for Normativising Education through Justice 1. An Ethics of Rhythm and the Philosophical As-If: Educational Aporia and Reimaging Justice as Interdependence 2. 'Plastic Justice': A Metaphor for Education 3. What Does Educative Justice Look Like? Or: What Happened as I Read Toni Morrison’s Recitatif PART II – Contextualising and Situating the Relation of Justice and Education 4. Encountering the Promise of Happiness: In Search for a Critical Space in Education 5. Justice in Dialogic Education: The Hegemonic Use of "Truth" in Dialogue and Its Educational Limits 6. Responding to Wrongdoing 7. Facets of Justice in Education: A Petroleum Nation Addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda 8. Vulnerable Enough for Inclusion? Unaccompanied Minors’ Experiences of Vulnerability and Trauma on Their Way to Norway 9. Virtues and Rituals: Confucianism and Education for Justice 10. Higher Education under Consideration: Why Restorative Justice (in Africa) Is Still Relevant? PART III - The Self and the World of Today: Meta-Critical Considerations 11. Justice and the Conspicuous 12. Explaining Teachers’ Experiences of Injustice through Recognition 13. The Will to Injustice: An Autoethnography of Learning to Hear Uncomfortable Truths CODA: Justice, Education and the World of Today: Concluding Remarks