Mitja Sardoc

• PhD (Institute of Education, University of London, UK)
• Research Associate at Educational Research Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

This paper examines the tensions, problems and challenges associated with the liberal version of the rights-based conception of citizenship and its commitment to civic equality. In particular, it examines the basic objections against this conception of citizenship raised by both traditional and contemporary criticism, each claiming that this concep...

This encyclopedia brings together voluminous knowledge on one of the key characteristic features of the human condition: diversity. The overall goal of this reference work is not only to serve as a repository of knowledge on this particular topic but to provide readers with a conceptual cartography enabling them to navigate between the many complex...

This book brings together a collection of interviews and conversations with leading scholars across different disciplines and areas of research including moral and political philosophy, history, sociology, political theory, psychology, and jurisprudence, among others. It provides an authoritative presentation of contemporary accounts of toleration,...

This introductory essay to the Making Sense of Toleration book of interviews and conversations brings to the forefront the importance of dialogue as one of the original forms of philosophical inquiry. Its opening allusion to one of the most memorable stories from the ‘literary nonsense’ genre points to a growing trend in contemporary academic publi...

The identification and development of talent have long been a central target of policy making in various domains, including education, sports, the arts and business. Given the importance of talent for success in a competitive global market, governments and businesses across the globe continually devise strategic policies to identify, attract and pr...

Tematska številka revije DIALOGI (5-6, 2024) prinaša prispevke slovenskih in tujih raziskovalcev o različnih razsežnostih nasilja. Uvodna predstavitev tematske številke (skupaj s kazalom) je dostopna na spletni strani: https://aristej.si/dialogi/2024/5-6

This Handbook provides an authoritative exposition of equality of opportunity. It presents the different concepts most commonly associated with equality of opportunity, and discusses the many problems dominating the controversies on equality of opportunity at the theoretical, policy or practical level. The chapters give a concise exposition of the...

As one of the most distinctive books in scholarly publishing, The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Young is considered not only a classic work in the sociology of education but one of the most intriguing books ever published. Well over half a century since it first appeared, this book continues to exert an important influence in both academia and...

Tematska številka revije DIALOGI (5-6, 2023) prinaša prispevke slovenskih in tujih raziskovalcev s širšega vsebinskega področja strpnosti. Uvodna predstavitev tematske številke (skupaj s kazalom) je dostopna na spletni strani: https://aristej.si/dialogi/2023/5-6

This interview with Prof. Ruth Wodak discusses some of the most pressing issues associated with slogans, political discourse an education. The introductory section of the interview touches on Prof. Wodak's work in critical discourse analysis. The central part of the interview examines slogans as one of the main vehicles of political propaganda and...

Članek je dostopen na spletni strani strokovne spletne revije ALTERNATOR: https://www.alternator.science/preview/9d7c765cefb827fb/79da2c6c1e300261

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume. The concept...

Throughout recorded history, slogans have been an important part of our public life. From political rhetoric and propaganda, to social movements and awareness-raising campaigns, their usage has overcome historical periods, cultural barriers, ethnic affiliation, political systems, party allegiance or personal taste. Arguably more than any other ling...

For much of its history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has ultimately radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Besides its inextricable link w...

The last few years have witnessed a resurgence of interest among both scholars and public intellectuals over issues associated with distributive justice and its gravitational orbit of concepts, including the idea of merit and the adjacent vision of a meritocratic society. Nevertheless, despite its centrality for conceptions of equality of opportuni...

This volume brings together interviews with leading scholars to discuss some of the most important issues associated with radicalization, violent extremism and terrorism. The overall aim of these interviews is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ over radicalization and violent extremism best represented by many of its well-known slogans, metap...

Tematska številka revije DIALOGI (1-2, 2022) prinaša prispevke slovenskih in tujih raziskovalcev s širšega vsebinskega področja domoljubja. Uvodna predstavitev tematske številke (skupaj s kazalom) je dostopna na spletni strani: http://www.aristej.si/slo/dialogi/index.html

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different con...

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF TOLERATION aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different con...

THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF TOLERATION aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different con...

In recent decades, discussions regarding citizenship and citizenship education have evolved from a marginal issue in political philosophy and the philosophy of education to one of the most pressing topics in contemporary discussions about the civic aims of public schooling. The place and contribution of citizenship education in public schools have...

Both historically and conceptually, toleration has been one of the foundational characteristics that define the very essence of a plurally diverse polity and the basic virtue associated with a liberal conception of citizenship. Despite its central role in contemporary political thought, toleration remains subject to various controversies and disagr...

Članek 'Patriotizem kot alibi' je dostopen na spletni strani časnika MLADINA: https://www.mladina.si/208121/patriotizem-kot-alibi/

'Talents and Distributive Justice' journal special issue of EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY (vol. 53, no. 8). It includes articles by Mitja Sardoč and Tomaž Deželan, Jaime Ahlberg, Johannes Giesinger, Kirsten Meyer, Jonathan J. B. Mijs, Mark C. Vopat, Winston C. Thompson. For table of of contents, see: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/curre...

What do we mean by the American Dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned liquid – like ice melting? Do we know whether the American Dream motivates and inspires or, alternately, obscures and deceives? The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream offers distinctive, authoritative, original es...

Članek 'Psevdodemokracija' je dostopen na spletni strani časnika MLADINA: https://www.mladina.si/207399/psevdodemokracija/

Članek 'Republika tvitov' je dostopen na spletni strani tednika MLADINA: https://www.mladina.si/206511/republika-tvitov/

Članek 'Zrelostni izpit' je dostopen na spletni strani časnika DELO: https://www.delo.si/sobotna-priloga/zrelostni-izpit/

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliberal agenda in education. It does so by analysing, uncovering and commenting on language as a central tool of education. Focussing on vocabulary, metaphors, and slogans used in strategy documents, advertis...

Članek 'Teorija blazneža' je dostopen na spletni strani tednika MLADINA: https://www.mladina.si/205070/teorija-blazneza/

This collective paper on radicalization and violent extremism part of the ‘Philosophy of education in a new key’ initiative by Educational Philosophy and Theory brings together some of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the most pressing epistemological, ethical, political and educational issues facing post-9/11 scholarship on radicalizat...

Intervju s Quassimom Cassamom odpira nekatere zapostavljene epistemološke vidike, povezane s procesom radikalizacije (na primer indoktrinacija), in njen zagoneten odnos z nasilnim ekstremizmom. V osrednjem delu intervjuja prof. Cassam podrobno opredeli tri glavne ovire na tem področju znanstvenih raziskav, in sicer (i) nejasnost glede ključnih konc...

Kljub dejstvu, da je postal 11. september 2001 nekakšen začetek štetja koledarske dobe »vojne proti terorju«, zaznamuje t. i. varnostno paradigmo, v katero je ujeta razprava o radikalizaciji in nasilnem ekstremizmu, vrsta zgrešenih srečanj in zamujenih priložnosti. To ne nazadnje potrjujejo posamezni slogani, metafore in ostali klišeji, ki s svojo...

Journal special issue of ČASOPIS ZA KRITIKO ZNANOSTI (in Slovene) on radicalization and violent extremism. It brings together a set of articles by some of the leading Slovene scholars working in this area of scholarly research.

For much of its modern history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Nevertheless, unlike concepts tradi...

Both historically and conceptually, patriotism has been one of the foundational characteristics that defines the very essence of one’s attachment, identification and loyalty to a political community and a basic virtue associated with citizenship as a political conception of the person. Despite its centrality in the pantheon of political ideals, it...

Članek je dostopen na spletni strani časnika DELO (https://www.delo.si/mnenja/gostujoce-pero/moralna-panika-v-casu-koronavirusa-295050.html)

Članek je dostopen na spletni strani časnika DELO (https://www.delo.si/mnenja/gostujoce-pero/solska-reforma-papirnati-tiger-ali-trojanski-konj-273353.html)

This essay reviews Michael Peters’ book The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2020), an edited collection of his articles exploring the concept of the Chinese Dream. The essays starts with the analogy between dreams and their role in psychoanalysis and dreams as an ideal representation of a nation’s ethos. The introductory part illustrates this...

This Handbook brings together more than 40 chapters by some of the leading authors on the main themes and concepts associated with this area of scholarly research. Each chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of a particular aspect of this complex, and controversial, social phenomenon. The handbook provides a clear and authoritative exposition of...

Preučevanje nasilja v vzgoji in izobraževanju, kot tudi v družbi nasploh, ima v svetu dolgo tradicijo, saj velja zagotavljanje varnega in spodbudnega učnega okolja za enega od temeljnih načel šolanja. Poleg teoretikov, snovalcev politik ter strokovno-pedagoških delavcev in staršev zagotavljanju varnega in spodbudnega učnega okolja posebno pozornost...

In this interview, Prof. Vittorio Bufacchi examines in detail the relationship between two equally challenging issues, i.e. violence and social (in)justice [and their intersection]. In the introductory part, he dicusses what triggered his own interest in violence. At the same time, he examines philosophy's main contribution to discussions over viol...

Preučevanje nasilja v vzgoji in izobraževanju kot tudi v družbi nasploh ima v svetu dolgo tradicijo, saj velja zagotavljanje varnega in spodbudnega učnega okolja za enega od temeljnih načel šolanja. Poleg teoretikov, snovalcev politik ter strokovno-pedagoških delavcev in staršev, zagotavljanju varnega in spodbudnega učnega okolja posebno pozornost...

V tem intervjuju profesor Vittorio Bufacchi podrobno preučuje odnos med dvema enako zahtevnima problemoma, in sicer nasiljem in družbeno (ne)pravičnostjo [ter njunim presečiščem]. V uvodnem delu govori o tem, kaj je sprožilo njegovo lastno zanimanje za nasilje. Hkrati predstavi glavni prispevek filozofije k razpravam o nasilju. V osrednjem delu int...

Čeprav slogan ‘nasilje prepoznamo, ko ga vidimo’ nedvoumno ponazori njegovo neposrednost, velja problematika nasilja – tako konceptualno kakor tudi empirično – za vse prej kot enostavno ali neproblematično. Glede na vrsto protislovij, napetosti in izzivov, ki jih odpira analiza katerekoli izmed njegovih razsežnosti ali pojmovanj, ostaja razumevanje...

This interview with Prof. C.A.J. Coady is devoted to the discussion on some of the most pressing issues associated with violence. The initial section of the interview discusses the different avenues of research on violence and the ‘progress’ being made in different disciplines addressing this phenomenon. In the central part of the interview, Prof....

Članek je dostopen na spletni strani časnika DELO (https://www.delo.si/mnenja/gostujoce-pero/strah-kot-orozje-174672.html)

This interview with Prof. Michel Wieviorka discusses some of the most pressing issues associated with radicalization and violent extremism. The initial section of the interview is devoted to the discussion of the main differences between violent extremism fueled by radicalisation and other forms of terrorism that existed in different European count...

The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration aims to provide a comprehensive presentation of toleration as the foundational idea associated with engagement with diversity. This handbook is intended to provide an authoritative exposition of contemporary accounts of toleration, the central justifications used to advance it, a presentation of the different con...

In this interview, Prof. Henry Giroux engages with some of the most challenging issues associated with the neoliberal educational agenda. In the introductory part, he discusses neoliberalism’s different operating registers including the ‘war over ideas’. In particular, he examines how the neoliberal ideology came to dominate some of the commanding...

For over two decades now, neoliberalism has been at the forefront of discussions not only in the economy and finance but has infiltrated our vocabulary in a number of areas as diverse as governance studies, criminology, health care, jurisprudence, education etc. Its economistic language associated with the promotion of effectiveness and efficiency...

In this interview, Dr. Amy Gutmann discusses the legacy of her book Democratic Education after 30 years since it was first published. After presenting some of the main ideas from Democratic Education, Dr. Gutmann emphasises the importance of both democratic education and democratic deliberation as central elements of public education in a plurally...

Program mednarodne primerjave dosežkov učencev [PISA] predstavlja enega od glavnih »generatorjev podatkov« Organizacije za ekonomsko sodelovanje in razvoj [OECD] ter enega od njenih paradnih konjev »mehkega načina upravljanja«. Poleg »standardnih« vsebinskih poudarkov učinkovitosti je v zadnjem desetletju OECD-jeva agenda na širšem vsebinskem podro...

This is the submitted version of the interview published in Theory and Research in Education 16.1. (2018) with minor changes. Mitja Sardoč’s interview with John White discusses a neglected aspect of the educational goal of equipping learners to lead a life of autonomous well-being – trying to ensure that they have adequate options from which to c...