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Lövgren, Johan – Human Rights Education Review, 2022
Citizenship education played a crucial role in the 19th century transition from royal sovereignty to democracy in the Nordic region, with folk high schools (FHS) playing an important role. While established to empower the people ("folk") for active participation in society, the contemporary folk high schools have reoriented from their…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Folk Schools, Civil Rights, Educational History
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Helskog, Guro Hansen – Educational Action Research, 2015
The overarching question addressed in this paper is the following: Can Dialogos dialogues conducted over time lead to the development of respect, mutual understanding and friendship among participants with diverse cultural and life stance backgrounds? Dialogos is a pedagogical approach to practical philosophy aimed at enhancing human maturity and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Politics, Intergroup Relations, Religious Cultural Groups
Helskog, Guro Hansen – Educational Action Research, 2014
The empirical basis of this article is the reconciliation process in a destructive conflict between students of different cultural and religious backgrounds in upper secondary education in Norway. The Dialogos approach to dialogical philosophizing was tried out through an action research process in order to bring about reconciliation, letting the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Conflict Resolution, Intergroup Relations, Secondary School Students