Non-affirmative Theory of Education and Bildung

Online Seminars

1. Core questions in the theory of education, and how non-affirmative to education and
Bildung deals with them
September 26th, 1-4pm, 2023

Introduction to the series: Why engage in non-affirmative theory of education? Problems,

positionings and possibilities
Michael Uljens

2. Non-affirmative education and related theoretical positions and issues - Part I

October 17, 1-4pm, 2023

Dewey, existential uncertainty, and non-affirmative democratic education

Andrea R. English

Revisiting forgotten relationships between justice and education - Non-Affirmative

Education as complementing distributive justice
Juan José Sosa Alonso

3. Non-affirmative education and related theoretical positions and issues - Part II

November 14, 1-4pm, 2023

Between doxa and transformational Bildung – A phenomenological and social-theoretical

rehabilitation of the formation of opinions with Egon Schütz and Pierre Bourdieu
Johannes Türstig and Malte Brinkmann

Hermeneutics in non-affirmative theory of education

Mari Mielityinen-Pachmann and Michael Uljens

4. Non-affirmative education and empirical research

December 12, 1-4pm, 2023

Pedagogical experimentalism and the principle of verification. A quest for non-affirmative

educational research
Hanno Su and Johannes Bellmann

Non-affirmative theory of education and cultural-historical activity theory —

Where do they meet?
Alex Mäkiharju

5. Non-affirmative education perspectives on curriculum and Didaktik

January 16, 1-5pm, 2024
Bildung and 21th century competences: in need of mutual recognition?
Armend Tahirslay
From ‘didactics’ to ‘curriculum-and-didactics’ and beyond: A non-affirmative
approach to the analysis of policy changes of didactics in mainland China
Bangpin Ding

6. Non-affirmative education approach to education policy and leadership

February 21st, 1-4pm, 2024

Operating in an outcomes-based and a democratic Bildung discourse

Lejf Moos

Knowledge, values and subject-ness - Educative teaching as a regulative idea of

school development in the 21st century
Thomas Rucker

7. Non-affirmative education perspectives in East and West

March 12, 1-4pm, 2024

On the normativity of data-driven curriculum policy-making: a discursive and

non-affirmative approach
Andreas Nordin

Understanding municipal education leaders in the tension between politics, professionals

and parents
Ann-Sofie Smeds-Nylund

8. Non-affirmative Education Theory as a Language for Global Education Discourse in the

Twenty-First Century
April 9, 1-4pm, 2024

Wrap Up: Roundtable Discussions