From Active Citizenship to World Citizenship: A Proposal for a World University

Autor/inn/en	Masschelein, Jan; Simons, Maarten
Titel	From Active Citizenship to World Citizenship: A Proposal for a World University
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 8 (2009) 2, S.236-248 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2009.8.2.236
Schlagwörter	Universities; Global Approach; Citizenship; Entrepreneurship; School Culture; Educational Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? University; Universität; Globales Denken; Staatsbürgerschaft; Unternehmungsgeist; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie
Abstract	This article explores how universities can function as spaces where a world citizenship takes shape. First, Kant's distinction between the "private use of reason" and "domestic gathering", on the one hand, and the "public use of reason" and "public gathering", on the other, is elucidated. This distinction is used, secondly, to argue that the actual university organises "domestic gatherings". In the name of excellence, it requires an entrepreneurial ethos of its staff, i.e. an ethos of obedience to a permanent quality tribunal, implying a permanent (self-)mobilisation confining the entrepreneur to a domestic gathering and the private use of reason ("private citizens"). Based on this understanding, the third section develops a proposal for a world university inhabited by "learned individuals" acting as world citizens. It is a habitat in which an experimental and attentive ethos is present and where the public use of reason is "finding (a) place". This public use of reason is not just about making things known, but of making them present. The aim of the final section, then, is to make the proposal more specific, based on an exploration of "public lecturing" as the time and space of public (world) gathering where things are made public. (Contains 8 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10