Pedagogical approaches often assume fixed ontological positions, such as teacher-centered, curriculum-centered, child-centered, or world-centered perspectives, which tend to overlook the complexity of educational practice. These approaches limit educators’ ability to adaptively shift between diverse …

Our planet’s weather patterns are changing, plastic pollution is increasing, economic volatility and social inequality are rising globally, and supply chains are becoming more unstable due to the overuse of vital resources. With its global reach and influence, the hospitality industry has the potential …

This paper aims to reconsider our cultural - and industry wide - reliance upon authentic identity in terms of fashion. Clothing has come to signify our personal beliefs and values, allowing for incessant (but acceptable, even honourable) consumption and change. Inadvertently, the shaky foundations of …

Democratie, vrijheid, gelijkheid voor wie? Deze vraag staat centraal in het boek Denken over Democratie, geschreven voor het havo-eindexamen filosofie. Leerlingen verdiepen zich in een reeks politieke denkers van de Oudheid tot de huidige tijd: van Plato tot Michael Sandel. Ze denken na over fundamentele …

Philosophy is an elective subject in secondary education in the Netherlands, which is not often studied in the context of citizenship education. This is probably because only a minority of students participate in philosophy classes in the upper grades of secondary education (approximately 2-5% of all …

Kim Meijer, zelf werkzaam als docent, onderzoeker en trainer in de bedrijfsethiek, is in december 2023 gepromoveerd op het proefschrift ‘Impossible and Inevitable: Reconstructing the Critique of Business Ethics’. Voor toegepast filosofen is dit een belangrijk proefschrift, omdat het de modderigheid van …

Over the last five years, I have found myself circling around four key concepts: Performance. Philosophy. Animals. And Equality. And I have found myself thinking in and with circles. It began with the various references to circles we can find in the philosophy of Henri Bergson - in his idea of the field …

In secondary school philosophy classes students learn to reason critically about social and scientific issues. This study examined the effects of a whole-class, teacher-led philosophy classroom dialogue intervention on students’ value-loaded critical thinking. Value-loaded critical thinking is logically …

In de aangescherpte wet burgerschapsonderwijs en in de nieuwe kerndoelen voor het burgerschapsonderwijs spelen democratische waarden een centrale rol: leerlingen moeten hier kennis van hebben en scholen hebben een inspanningsverplichting om “basiswaarden van de democratische rechtsstaat te bevorderen”. …

This thesis focuses on enhancing Reveal, a philosophical party game app by HUMAN, designed to foster engaging philosophical discussions among young adults aged 20-30. The study aimed to improve Revealandapos;s Party Mode to boost user enjoyment and engagement. A combination of A/B testing, iterative …