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.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Boontinand, V. Forstenzer, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8208-6474
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2024 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in Educational Philosophy and Theory is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Keywords:	human rights education; democratic citizenship education; community of philosophical inquiry; violence reduction
Dates:	Published: 30 December 2024 Published (online): 30 December 2024 Accepted: 25 November 2024 Submitted: 13 May 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Funding Information:	Funder Grant number British Academy - Newton Fund NAFR1180112 Thailand Research Fund RDG 62H0001
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2024 14:41
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2025 12:29
Status:	Published online
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1080/00131857.2024.2444414
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221034

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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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