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  • Post-Humanism and Social Science Education

    2023-07-14

    Editors: Werner Friedrichs, Bamberg/Germany; Inken Heldt, Kaiserslautern/Germany; Noora Pyyry, Helsinki/Finland; Jan Löfström, Turku/Finland.

    The Journal of Social Science Education will publish a Theme Issue on Post-Humanism in social science education (JSSE 1-2025). In this Call for Papers, we warmly invite readers to contribute to the issue!

    The world is at a tipping point. The much-discussed Anthropocene (or ‘Chthulucene’; Haraway, 2015) points to a ‘quake in being’ (Morton, 2013). Whether or not one accepts the concept as a factual description of a new geological era, there is very little disagreement about the significant impact on the planet’s ecosystems that humans, or specific human-made systems, are responsible for: climate change, global warming, alterations to the Earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles, ocean acidification, and catastrophic biodiversity loss (Crutzen & Stormer, 2000; Latour et al., 2018). Such trends can no longer be described as a crisis only but could be understood as a ‘bifurcation’ (Bonneil & Fressoz, 2017): a call to dislodge and critically re-think the premises of the modern (Western) human subjectivity. A re-orientation is needed in thinking of what it means to be human: a post-human de-centering of the autonomous knowing subject (Braidotti, 2019). Further, this entails a need to also critically examine what learning is and how it is realised in different situations, in the spirit of resisting the instrumentalization and economization of education.

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  • Call for JSSE Special Issue Proposals

    2023-03-10

    The JSSE is looking for innovative research topics and ground-breaking ideas in the field of social science education, civic education, and economic education. We particularly aim to promote the development of new ideas and areas of research and to contribute to a dynamic scientific agenda setting in the field. This aims to encourage international teams of younger scientists to set topics together and to initiate a conversation about current challenges and issues. We therefore welcome submissions on any topic within the social science education that fit the academic profile of the journal, see here https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/about . We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that consider topics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

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