Edda Sant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3471861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edda Sant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edda |
| FAMILY NAME | Sant |
| SIGNATURE | SANT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7907-5907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Democratic education in contexts of polarisation. Lessons from the politicisation of schools during the Chilean protests (2019–2023)
Democracy as intra-action
This article scrutinises the ontological nature of democracy and the implications that different ontological assumptions might have for educational practice. To achieve this, we use Karen Barad’s notion of diffraction to read John Dewey’s, Ernesto Laclau’s and Barad’s theoretical insights through one another. Our starting point is Dewey’s famous sentence that ‘democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated livin…
Global citizenship education in Europe
This article explores possibilities for challenging liberal humanism, often expressed through cosmopolitanism, in global citizenship education (GCE) in European contexts, specifically England. Thinking with Sylvia Wynter’s genealogy of the creation and universal imposition of Man as the dominant descriptive statement for the human and Walter Mignolo’s critique of European cosmopolitanism, our research aimed to (1) understand how Euro-western libe…
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy
This paper examines three questions: (1) (How) Is democracy promoted in secondary schools in England? (2) How is the promotion of democracy understood in education and teacher education policy? and (3) To what extent does existing education policy benefit the promotion of democracy in schools in England? To explore these questions, we first discuss the policy landscape surrounding democratic education in England. We then outline our data collecti…
Thinking hegemony otherwise – an educational critique of Mouffe’s agonism
The question ‘What is to be done?’ underpins Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democratic politics. Yet, despite this affirmative tone that distinguishes her from other radical theorists, her theory neglects the cultural work required for hegemony-building. This omission has resulted in operational difficulties when agonistic democracy is put into practice. This article shows how academics inspired by Mouffe unintentionally depend on theoretic…
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential
This paper is a theoretical contribution to discussions about the emancipatory potential of citizenship education across four sites (i.e. Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan). By reflecting on policy and empirical data from our four contexts of study, we discuss whether citizenship education manifests different conditions of emancipatory education (modern, postmodern, and posthumous). We argue that citizenship education offers possibilitie…
Political Education in Times of Populism
The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure
The populist turn has produced contrasting conceptions of education. Research has suggested that individuals educated to university level are unlikely to support populist discourses. Meanwhile, populism is often understood as a social illness or disease that needs to be cured through education. This article argues that both populist and anti‐populist discourses are fantasies in which education comprises an ideological grip. In the populist fantas…
El currículum de historia en Inglaterra, Portugal y España
En este trabajo analizamos los currículums de historia de tres países: España, Portugal e Inglaterra. El análisis se realiza siguiendo un mismo esquema interpretativo, primero una descripción del contexto y de la tradición curricular, después diferentes elementos del currículum: finalidades, escalas temporales y espaciales, contenidos y enfoque metodológico. Para analizar cada caso hemos escogido la etapa educativa de educación secundaria obligat…
Civic education guidelines in Hong Kong 1985–2012
The dynamic of how civic education is framed during turbulent periods is illuminated through analysis of three Hong Kong official civic education curriculum guidelines (1985, 1996, 2012). Guidelines are publicly available, officially sanctioned statements of purpose that have particular relevance for education professionals and are used around the world to characterize educational initiatives. Our focus is on guidelines written during periods in …
Political assumptions underlying pedagogies of national education
Teacher education in England now requires that student teachers follow practices that do not undermine “fundamental British values” where these practices are assessed against a set of ethics and behaviour standards. This paper examines the political assumptions underlying pedagogical interpretations about the education of national identities through documenting how a group of student teachers uphold the institutional demand of promoting fundament…
Can the Subaltern Nation Speak by Herself in the History Curriculum
This article examines and discusses the ways in which hegemonic and subaltern discourses alternatively evoke different, and sometimes competing, notions of the nation and how they might productively coexist within the history curriculum. More precisely, using Homi Bhabha's conceptual tools of pedagogic and performative narratives of the nation, the article examines history curriculum as permeable to alternative and endless reinventions of the nat…
Citizenship and Identity
We discuss the ways in which English and Catalan students perceive themselves as members of communities and as citizens and the role of schools in these perceptions. Questionnaire and interview data were collected and analysed from 583 secondary school students in a total of 9 schools that were known for their commitment to citizenship education in England and Catalonia. The research took place when issues of national and other identities were pr…
Education, democracy and development
Political assumptions underlying pedagogies of national education
Teacher education in England now requires that student teachers follow practices that do not undermine “fundamental British values” where these practices are assessed against a set of ethics and behaviour standards. This paper examines the political assumptions underlying pedagogical interpretations about the education of national identities through documenting how a group of student teachers uphold the institutional demand of promoting fundament…
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy
This paper examines three questions: (1) (How) Is democracy promoted in secondary schools in England? (2) How is the promotion of democracy understood in education and teacher education policy? and (3) To what extent does existing education policy benefit the promotion of democracy in schools in England? To explore these questions, we first discuss the policy landscape surrounding democratic education in England. We then outline our data collecti…
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential
This paper is a theoretical contribution to discussions about the emancipatory potential of citizenship education across four sites (i.e. Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan). By reflecting on policy and empirical data from our four contexts of study, we discuss whether citizenship education manifests different conditions of emancipatory education (modern, postmodern, and posthumous). We argue that citizenship education offers possibilitie…
Can the Subaltern Nation Speak by Herself in the History Curriculum
This article examines and discusses the ways in which hegemonic and subaltern discourses alternatively evoke different, and sometimes competing, notions of the nation and how they might productively coexist within the history curriculum. More precisely, using Homi Bhabha's conceptual tools of pedagogic and performative narratives of the nation, the article examines history curriculum as permeable to alternative and endless reinventions of the nat…
The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure
The populist turn has produced contrasting conceptions of education. Research has suggested that individuals educated to university level are unlikely to support populist discourses. Meanwhile, populism is often understood as a social illness or disease that needs to be cured through education. This article argues that both populist and anti‐populist discourses are fantasies in which education comprises an ideological grip. In the populist fantas…
Global citizenship education in Europe
This article explores possibilities for challenging liberal humanism, often expressed through cosmopolitanism, in global citizenship education (GCE) in European contexts, specifically England. Thinking with Sylvia Wynter’s genealogy of the creation and universal imposition of Man as the dominant descriptive statement for the human and Walter Mignolo’s critique of European cosmopolitanism, our research aimed to (1) understand how Euro-western libe…
Thinking hegemony otherwise – an educational critique of Mouffe’s agonism
The question ‘What is to be done?’ underpins Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democratic politics. Yet, despite this affirmative tone that distinguishes her from other radical theorists, her theory neglects the cultural work required for hegemony-building. This omission has resulted in operational difficulties when agonistic democracy is put into practice. This article shows how academics inspired by Mouffe unintentionally depend on theoretic…
El currículum de historia en Inglaterra, Portugal y España
En este trabajo analizamos los currículums de historia de tres países: España, Portugal e Inglaterra. El análisis se realiza siguiendo un mismo esquema interpretativo, primero una descripción del contexto y de la tradición curricular, después diferentes elementos del currículum: finalidades, escalas temporales y espaciales, contenidos y enfoque metodológico. Para analizar cada caso hemos escogido la etapa educativa de educación secundaria obligat…
Citizenship and Identity
We discuss the ways in which English and Catalan students perceive themselves as members of communities and as citizens and the role of schools in these perceptions. Questionnaire and interview data were collected and analysed from 583 secondary school students in a total of 9 schools that were known for their commitment to citizenship education in England and Catalonia. The research took place when issues of national and other identities were pr…
Education, democracy and development
Citizenship and Identity
We discuss the ways in which English and Catalan students perceive themselves as members of communities and as citizens and the role of schools in these perceptions. Questionnaire and interview data were collected and analysed from 583 secondary school students in a total of 9 schools that were known for their commitment to citizenship education in England and Catalonia. The research took place when issues of national and other identities were pr…
Can the Subaltern Nation Speak by Herself in the History Curriculum
This article examines and discusses the ways in which hegemonic and subaltern discourses alternatively evoke different, and sometimes competing, notions of the nation and how they might productively coexist within the history curriculum. More precisely, using Homi Bhabha's conceptual tools of pedagogic and performative narratives of the nation, the article examines history curriculum as permeable to alternative and endless reinventions of the nat…
Political assumptions underlying pedagogies of national education
Teacher education in England now requires that student teachers follow practices that do not undermine “fundamental British values” where these practices are assessed against a set of ethics and behaviour standards. This paper examines the political assumptions underlying pedagogical interpretations about the education of national identities through documenting how a group of student teachers uphold the institutional demand of promoting fundament…
Civic education guidelines in Hong Kong 1985–2012
The dynamic of how civic education is framed during turbulent periods is illuminated through analysis of three Hong Kong official civic education curriculum guidelines (1985, 1996, 2012). Guidelines are publicly available, officially sanctioned statements of purpose that have particular relevance for education professionals and are used around the world to characterize educational initiatives. Our focus is on guidelines written during periods in …
Political Education in Times of Populism
The fantasy of the populist disease and the educational cure
The populist turn has produced contrasting conceptions of education. Research has suggested that individuals educated to university level are unlikely to support populist discourses. Meanwhile, populism is often understood as a social illness or disease that needs to be cured through education. This article argues that both populist and anti‐populist discourses are fantasies in which education comprises an ideological grip. In the populist fantas…
El currículum de historia en Inglaterra, Portugal y España
En este trabajo analizamos los currículums de historia de tres países: España, Portugal e Inglaterra. El análisis se realiza siguiendo un mismo esquema interpretativo, primero una descripción del contexto y de la tradición curricular, después diferentes elementos del currículum: finalidades, escalas temporales y espaciales, contenidos y enfoque metodológico. Para analizar cada caso hemos escogido la etapa educativa de educación secundaria obligat…
Characterising citizenship education in terms of its emancipatory potential
This paper is a theoretical contribution to discussions about the emancipatory potential of citizenship education across four sites (i.e. Catalonia, Colombia, England, and Pakistan). By reflecting on policy and empirical data from our four contexts of study, we discuss whether citizenship education manifests different conditions of emancipatory education (modern, postmodern, and posthumous). We argue that citizenship education offers possibilitie…
Global citizenship education in Europe
This article explores possibilities for challenging liberal humanism, often expressed through cosmopolitanism, in global citizenship education (GCE) in European contexts, specifically England. Thinking with Sylvia Wynter’s genealogy of the creation and universal imposition of Man as the dominant descriptive statement for the human and Walter Mignolo’s critique of European cosmopolitanism, our research aimed to (1) understand how Euro-western libe…
Fail to plan, plan to fail. Are education policies in England helping teachers to deliver on the promise of democracy
This paper examines three questions: (1) (How) Is democracy promoted in secondary schools in England? (2) How is the promotion of democracy understood in education and teacher education policy? and (3) To what extent does existing education policy benefit the promotion of democracy in schools in England? To explore these questions, we first discuss the policy landscape surrounding democratic education in England. We then outline our data collecti…
Thinking hegemony otherwise – an educational critique of Mouffe’s agonism
The question ‘What is to be done?’ underpins Chantal Mouffe’s agonistic theory of democratic politics. Yet, despite this affirmative tone that distinguishes her from other radical theorists, her theory neglects the cultural work required for hegemony-building. This omission has resulted in operational difficulties when agonistic democracy is put into practice. This article shows how academics inspired by Mouffe unintentionally depend on theoretic…
Democracy as intra-action
This article scrutinises the ontological nature of democracy and the implications that different ontological assumptions might have for educational practice. To achieve this, we use Karen Barad’s notion of diffraction to read John Dewey’s, Ernesto Laclau’s and Barad’s theoretical insights through one another. Our starting point is Dewey’s famous sentence that ‘democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated livin…
Democratic education in contexts of polarisation. Lessons from the politicisation of schools during the Chilean protests (2019–2023)
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (9 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (9 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Democracy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)