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ʻBeing Human Today is a highly innovative exploration of the common human experience of becoming an I, joining the world, and recognizing the I of others – not only once, but in a constantly evolving process. The reader is guided through different rooms, as in an art exhibition, featuring authors, and artists, from different disciplines giving words to each other successively, as in a conversation. In this way, readers from any discipline are guaranteed to see what it is to be human today in a new perspective.ʼ -- Dag Gjerløw Aasland, University of Agder, Norway ‘Being Human Today provides readers with a different and innovative way of navigating concepts and experiences of the self through the variant approaches the volume takes to self as a concept and a sense of being. As a ‘book that was never-meant-to-be’, it invites us to engage with those existentialist dilemmas which neither offer a final sense of resolution nor does it furnish us with quick answers. This open-endedness while still clearly being set within identifiable parameters for those interested in the fields discussed is the book’s strength. The editors have collated a volume with a permanent sense of arrival, which effectively brings together several points over a horizon that keeps expanding. More than authors writing and reader reading, Being Human Today is a space for participants who are willing to take the role of actors-artists coinhabiting a curated space.’ -- John Baldacchino, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland, and Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy in the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK. From 2018 until 2022 he was Visiting Professor (Professor II) at the University of Agder. The current book is the outcome of the work done with colleagues during this time. Gert Biesta’s work focuses on the theory of education and the philosophy of educational and social research, with a particular interest in teaching, teachers, curriculum, education policy, arts education and religious education.  Lisbet Skregelid is Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Agder, Norway. Her research interests are within the field of art education. In particular she investigates how art and aesthetic practice can be relevant in school and society, and how educational theory can be of importance for artistic practice. Her research interests are within the expanded field of art education, and she has many years of praxis experience in this context. In her Ph.D. thesis, she investigated secondary school pupils’ encounters with contemporary art exhibitions over a period of three years in partnership with art museum and schools. In recent years, she has had extensive collaborations with artists in both teaching and research. Skregelid has written a number of books, book chapters and articles where she makes calls for arts-based approaches to education and what she calls pedagogy of dissensus. In her latest research, Skregelid’s own art practice is the point of departure for discussing art educational issues. Tore Dag Bøe is Professor in Department of Psychosocial Health at the University of Agder, Norway. He has many years of experience in mental health services as a mental health worker. In his doctoral work he investigated processes of change in mental health based on interviews with adolescents, their families and therapists involved. His research interests include phenomenological, ethical, and dialogical approaches to mental health. In recent years, he has written a number of books, book chapters, and articles on the ethical and dialogical aspects of mental health work, and also on methodological questions related to qualitative research in mental health. In his work he is seeking to develop new forms of practice and new ways of understanding in the field of mental health, based on phenomenological, social, and ethical perspectives.

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