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Worlds apart? On Niklas Luhmann and the sociology of education
In an effort to address the relationship between globalisation, education and Niklas Luhmann’s branch of systems theory, we present his …
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Education in world society: A matter of form
In his posthumously published work on education, Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) described his approach to the sociological observation of …
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Ambiguous Coexistence and Social Transaction: on a Sociology of Opacity and Institutionalized Discretion
Together with concepts such as pillarization and consociational democracy, the notion of social transaction has been forged to account …
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Beyond school. Transnational differentiation and the shifting form of education in world society
In 2014 the European Commission introduced a reform of its previous funding efforts in the realm of education, which grouped them …
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The history of the future and the shifting forms of education
Across the globe, education has recently been through a major semantic shift, where new notions such as ‘learning’, ‘competences’, …
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The problem of the present: On simultaneity, synchronisation and transnational education projects
The current inclination, at the European level, to fund education in the form of projects radicalises the modern orientation towards …
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Time and educational (re-)forms --Inquiring the temporal dimension of education
This Special Issue aims to meticulously disentangle the (relations between) different sorts of time that are fabricated in contemporary …
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