Humanizing Education in the 3rd Millennium

Preface.- Introduction.- Memorandum.- Section I Being human.- 1 Heart education for a happy life.- 2 Three Sacred Enterprises: Human Creations that must be Preserved and Strengthened.- 3 The meaning of 'Human education' for the modern world.- 4 Towards a post-human education for the twenty-first century.- 5 (Non-) Human Education in the Capitalocene.- Section II Educational policy.- 6 Education Policy in the Time of Climate Emergency and Global Pandemic.- 7 Challenges to Educational Policy: A Philosophical View.- 8 Re-humanising Education Policies.- Section III Democracy.- 9 Exploring a Canvas for Coexistence: A Role for Education in India.- 10 Democratic Education and Epistemic Justice.- Section IV Education.- 11 The Moral Education Needed Today.- 12 Rethinking Education.- 13 Education and the political role of an errant, loving and childlike questioning.

R. Scott Webster is Associate Professor at the School of Education at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the coordinator for the Curriculum and Pedagogy Research group, and has interests in educational theory, philosophy of education, curriculum theory, pedagogy, critical thinking and spirituality. Scott has written and contributed to various articles, chapters, and books, including Educating for Meaningful Lives (2009), Understanding Curriculum: The Australian Perspective (2019), Theory and Philosophy in Educational Research (2018), Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers (2019), and Education as Confronting Self and Society (forthcoming).                                                                                                                                                    Timo Airaksinen is Professor of Practical Philosophy (Emeritus), at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research interests focuses on 17th and 18th Century empiricist philosophy and natural theology, the philosophy of literature, virtue ethics, and social conflict theory. He has travelled worldwide and published widely, most recently the publication Vagaries of Desire (2019).
Poonam Batra is Professor of Education at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi, India. Poonam's main areas of professional focus include public policy in education, curriculum and pedagogy, the social psychology of education, teacher education, and gender studies. Poonam has co-authored several key education policy documents in India. Her recent research examines the imperatives of comparative