šolsko polje, letnik xxviii, številka 1–2 200 Mitja Sardoč (PhD) is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia) where he is member of the ‘Social Contract in the 21 st Century’ research programme. He is author of several scholarly arti­ cles and editor of a number of journal special issues on citizenship educati­ on, multiculturalism, toleration, equal opportunities and patriotism. He is Managing Editor of Theory and Research in Education ( http://tre.sage­ pub.com/) and member of the editorial board of Educational Philosophy and Theory and the Open Review of Educational Research. He edited two books published by Wiley (Citizenship, Inclusion and Democracy and To- leration, Respect and Recognition in Education). He is also a contributing author to the SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy . He is editor­ in­ chief of The Handbook of Patriotism [ http://refworks.sprin­ ger.com/ Patriotism] that is to be published by Springer in 2018. Andraž Teršek Andraž T eršek, pravnik in doktor (ustavnega) prava, je doktoriral na Prav­ ni fakulteti v Ljubljani, kjer je bil v letih 1998–2008 zaposlen kot asistent. V tem času se je uveljavil kot pravni teoretik in filozof, predvsem pa kot ustavni pravnik. Za njegovo ukvarjanje s pravom so značilni upiranje pravniškim dogmam in klišejem, konstruktivna kritičnost do pravne real­ nosti, vztrajanje na trajnem upravičevanju prava z razumnostjo, logiko in moralo, opazovanje temeljnih pravnih vprašanj in problemov z nekoliko drugačnih zornih kotov, vnašanje novosti in novih študijskih pristopov v svetu pravne znanosti. Spisal je številna strokovna in znanstvena bese­ dila s področja ustavnega prava, demokracije, človekovih pravic in dru­ gih sorodnih tem. Bil je pomočnik urednika revije Dignitas. Je avtor dveh knjižnih del o svobodi izražanja. Je pobudnik, soustanovitelj in sourednik prve slovenske revije za ustavno pravo REVUS. Zaposlen je na Univerzi na Primorskem, kjer na Pedagoški fakulteti tudi predava. Andraž Teršek, diploma in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. Master of Legal Science (in Theory of Law and State and So ­ ciology of Law) from the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. PhD from Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (PhD Thesis: Legitimacy As A Component of Political And Legal Concepts Of Modern Constitutio­ nal Democracy). Assistant professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, in years 1999­ 2008. Former assistant editor of Dignitas – The Slovenian Journal of Human Rights. Editor of Legal Questions about the Beginning and End of Life. Abortion and Euthanasia, collection of Papers. Author of numerous ar­ ticles, essays and research papers, mostly written about constitucional law and democracy, sociology of law, human rights, philosopfy of law, le­ av tor j i 201 gality and legitimacy and legal culture. Author of the monograph Free­ dom of Expression (2007). Member of the Slovenian Constitutional Law Association’s managing board. Initiator, co­ founder and managing editor of REVUS­ European Constitutionality Review. Author of the Nations In Transit Report for Slovenia, 2006, Freedom House. Co­ founder and president of the Club Revus –Centre for Studies of European Democra­ cy and Constitutionality. As research associate he is above all responsible for the promotion of the legal and policy studies in the field of mental he­ alth and he is the Head of the Centre for Combined Science and Deve­ lopment, with the key purpose to establish and develop one single, combi­ ned, interdisciplinary science. Danijela Lahe Asis. mag. Danijela Lahe je zaposlena na Oddelku za sociologijo Filozof­ ske fakultete Univerze v Mariboru. Njeno raziskovalno in strokovno delo se nanaša predvsem na preučevanje področja družine in socialne geronto­ logije. Je avtorica in soavtorica strokovnih in znanstvenih prispevkov, ob­ javljenih v domačih in tujih publikacijah. danijela.lahe@um.si Asis. mag. Danijela Lahe works at the Department od Sociology (Faculty of Arts) at the University of Maribor. Her research and professional work is mainly focused on examining family and social gerontology. She is an author and co­ aurhor of various scientific articles published in national and international scientific publications. danijela.lahe@um.si Jana Goriup Jana Goriup, red. prof., univerzitetna učiteljica in predavateljica za soci­ ologijo družine in sociologijo vzgoje in izobraževanja ter socialno geron­ tologijo na FF in sociologijo zdravja in bolezni na FZV UM; raziskoval­ ka navedenih področij, soavtorica monografij in avtorica znanstvenih ter strokovnih člankov. jana.goriup@guest.um.si Jana Goriup, university teacher and lecturer of Sociology of the family, and the Sociology of education and Social gerontology and Sociology at health and diseases on Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Health Sciences University of Maribor; researcher in listed areas, co­ author of the mono­ graphs and the author of the scientific and professional articles. jana.gori­ up@guest.um.si Ana Šmidhofer Ana Šmidhofer je magistrirala in doktorirala na Oddelku za pedagogiko Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Mariboru. Raziskuje vplive nekaterih fi­ lozofskih tokov (personalizma, filozofske antropologije, fenomenologije itd.) na slovensko pedagoško misel med obema svetovnima vojnama.