• On the urgent need for philosophical practices in mainstream education today 

      Helskog, Guro Hansen; Weiss, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This essay is written based in a concern of ours that the dominant forms of teaching and learning in education today seem to be more in line with what Aristotle called techné and poiesis than with phronesis and praxis. The ...
    • Philosophising towards Wisdom as Nurturing the Tree of life in us 

      Helskog, Guro Hansen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this essay the author poses the hypothesis that the metaphor “to philosophise is to nurture the Tree of life in us” is a better metaphor than “to philosophise is to cease living” when it comes to conceptualizing what ...
    • Reflective practice research in teacher education 

      Weiss, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this essay the approach of reflective practice research, as introduced by the philosopher Anders Lindseth, is outlined and its relevance for teacher education is discussed. For that purpose, central theoretical as well ...
    • Towards a new pedagogy in higher education 

      Helskog, Guro Hansen; Torgersen, Glenn-Egil (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this essay the authors argue the need for a new pedagogy in Higher Education (HE). Our hypothesis is that the predominant focus today is on instrumental systems meant to measure the “quality” of education, subjecting ...
    • Wisdom and the art of living in 8th grade teachers` experiences of philosophizing the dialogos way 

      Helskog, Guro Hansen; Weiss, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper discusses teachers` self-reported experiences from participating in a Dialogos philosophizing project over five months, from the perspective of wisdom development. The project involved teachers from 13 upper ...