Mitja Sardoc
Biographic Data
| ID | 3086790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitja Sardoc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mitja |
| FAMILY NAME | Sardoc |
| SIGNATURE | SARDOC M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Educational Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3469-7478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Justice, education and the social contract
Talent Policy
The identification and development of talent have long been a central target of policy making in various domains, including education, sports, the arts and business. Given the importance of talent for success in a competitive global market, governments and businesses across the globe continually devise strategic policies to identify, attract and preserve both national and international talent. Most of these talent‐related practices and policies (…
Handbook of Equality of Opportunity
Slogans, political discourse and education
This interview with Prof. Ruth Wodak discusses some of the most pressing issues associated with slogans, political discourse an education. The introductory section of the interview touches on Prof. Wodak’s work in critical discourse analysis. The central part of the interview examines slogans as one of the main vehicles of political propaganda and policy-making. In the concluding section of the interview, Prof. Wodak lays out her plans for future…
Governing by slogans
Throughout recorded history, slogans have been an important part of our public life. From political rhetoric and propaganda, to social movements and awareness-raising campaigns, their usage has overcome historical periods, cultural barriers, ethnic affiliation, political systems, party allegiance or personal taste. Arguably more than any other linguistic ‘device’, slogans deliver a clearly recognizable message with as little complexity as possibl…
Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism
The trouble with merit
The last few years have witnessed a resurgence of interest among both scholars and public intellectuals over issues associated with distributive justice and its gravitational orbit of concepts, including the idea of merit and the adjacent vision of a meritocratic society. Nevertheless, despite its centrality for conceptions of equality of opportunity, a merit-based allocation of advantaged social positions has been confronted by a range of object…
The ethics of securitisation
Rita Floyd (PhD 2007) is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Conflict and Security at the University of Birmingham (UoB). At the same institution, she was previously a mid-career Fellow of the I
At 20
Virginia Held is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emerita) at the City University of New York. Among her books are How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford University
Philosophy of education in a new key
This collective paper on radicalization and violent extremism part of the ‘Philosophy of education in a new key’ initiative by Educational Philosophy and Theory brings together some of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the most pressing epistemological, ethical, political and educational issues facing post-9/11 scholarship on radicalization and violent extremism. Its overall aim is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ associated wi…
Routledge Handbook on the American Dream
Handbook of Patriotism
The Chinese dream and its future
This essay reviews Michael Peters' book The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2020), an edited collection of his articles exploring the concept of the Chinese Dream. The essays starts with the analogy between dreams and their role in psychoanalysis and dreams as an ideal representation of a nation's ethos. The introductory part illustrates this analogy with the example of the growing importance of the Chinese Dream. The central part of the ess…
Handbook of Patriotism
The rebranding of neoliberalism
Writing more than a century apart, the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville and the British historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin pointed to an interesting phenomenon that seems to dominate
Talents and distributive justice
For much of its modern history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Nevertheless, unlike concepts traditionally associated with distributive justice, e.g. fairness, (in)equality, desert, equality of oppo…
Making sense of political violence
View correction statement:Notice of duplicate publication: Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman
The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration
Radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy at UCL, and Read
Re-thinking violence
C. A. J. (Tony) Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He served as founding Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues (1990–2000) and then, until 2
Talents and distributive justice
The legacy of liberalism, community and culture
This article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka’s Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multiculturalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic section] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related…
Toleration, Respect and Recognition
An Interview with Michael Walzer
Rage and Hope
Handbook of Patriotism
The rebranding of neoliberalism
Writing more than a century apart, the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville and the British historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin pointed to an interesting phenomenon that seems to dominate
Talents and distributive justice
The ethics of securitisation
Rita Floyd (PhD 2007) is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Conflict and Security at the University of Birmingham (UoB). At the same institution, she was previously a mid-career Fellow of the I
At 20
Virginia Held is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emerita) at the City University of New York. Among her books are How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford University
Talents and distributive justice
For much of its modern history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Nevertheless, unlike concepts traditionally associated with distributive justice, e.g. fairness, (in)equality, desert, equality of oppo…
The legacy of liberalism, community and culture
This article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka’s Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multiculturalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic section] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related…
Rage and Hope
Rage and Hope
An Interview with Michael Walzer
Toleration, Respect and Recognition
The legacy of liberalism, community and culture
This article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka’s Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multiculturalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic section] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related…
The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration
Radicalisation, violent extremism and terrorism
Quassim Cassam is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. He was previously Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Professor of Philosophy at UCL, and Read
Re-thinking violence
C. A. J. (Tony) Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He served as founding Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues (1990–2000) and then, until 2
Talents and distributive justice
Handbook of Patriotism
The Chinese dream and its future
This essay reviews Michael Peters' book The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2020), an edited collection of his articles exploring the concept of the Chinese Dream. The essays starts with the analogy between dreams and their role in psychoanalysis and dreams as an ideal representation of a nation's ethos. The introductory part illustrates this analogy with the example of the growing importance of the Chinese Dream. The central part of the ess…
Handbook of Patriotism
The rebranding of neoliberalism
Writing more than a century apart, the French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville and the British historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin pointed to an interesting phenomenon that seems to dominate
Talents and distributive justice
For much of its modern history, the notion of talent has been associated with the idea of ‘careers open to talent’. Its emancipatory promise of upward social mobility has radically transformed the distribution of advantaged social positions and has had a lasting influence on the very idea of social status itself. Nevertheless, unlike concepts traditionally associated with distributive justice, e.g. fairness, (in)equality, desert, equality of oppo…
Making sense of political violence
View correction statement:Notice of duplicate publication: Making sense of political violence: an interview with Marc Sageman
The ethics of securitisation
Rita Floyd (PhD 2007) is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Conflict and Security at the University of Birmingham (UoB). At the same institution, she was previously a mid-career Fellow of the I
At 20
Virginia Held is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Emerita) at the City University of New York. Among her books are How Terrorism is Wrong: Morality and Political Violence (Oxford University
Philosophy of education in a new key
This collective paper on radicalization and violent extremism part of the ‘Philosophy of education in a new key’ initiative by Educational Philosophy and Theory brings together some of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the most pressing epistemological, ethical, political and educational issues facing post-9/11 scholarship on radicalization and violent extremism. Its overall aim is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ associated wi…
Routledge Handbook on the American Dream
Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism
The trouble with merit
The last few years have witnessed a resurgence of interest among both scholars and public intellectuals over issues associated with distributive justice and its gravitational orbit of concepts, including the idea of merit and the adjacent vision of a meritocratic society. Nevertheless, despite its centrality for conceptions of equality of opportunity, a merit-based allocation of advantaged social positions has been confronted by a range of object…
Slogans, political discourse and education
This interview with Prof. Ruth Wodak discusses some of the most pressing issues associated with slogans, political discourse an education. The introductory section of the interview touches on Prof. Wodak’s work in critical discourse analysis. The central part of the interview examines slogans as one of the main vehicles of political propaganda and policy-making. In the concluding section of the interview, Prof. Wodak lays out her plans for future…
Governing by slogans
Throughout recorded history, slogans have been an important part of our public life. From political rhetoric and propaganda, to social movements and awareness-raising campaigns, their usage has overcome historical periods, cultural barriers, ethnic affiliation, political systems, party allegiance or personal taste. Arguably more than any other linguistic ‘device’, slogans deliver a clearly recognizable message with as little complexity as possibl…
Handbook of Equality of Opportunity
Talent Policy
The identification and development of talent have long been a central target of policy making in various domains, including education, sports, the arts and business. Given the importance of talent for success in a competitive global market, governments and businesses across the globe continually devise strategic policies to identify, attract and preserve both national and international talent. Most of these talent‐related practices and policies (…
Justice, education and the social contract
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Higher education (5 works)