contributors 215 Mitja Sardoč Mitja Sardoč (PhD) is a senior research associate at the Educational Re- search Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia) where he is member of the ‘So- cial Contract in the 21 st Century’ research programme. He is author of scholarly articles and editor of a number of journal special issues on citi- zenship education, multiculturalism, toleration, equality of opportunity and patriotism. He is Managing Editor of Theory and Research in Educa - tion [http://tre.sagepub.com/] and member of the editorial board of Ed- ucational Philosophy and Theory and the Open Review of Educational Re - search. He edited two books published by Wiley (Citizenship, Inclusion and Democracy and Toleration, Respect and Recognition in Education). He is also a contributing author to the SAGE Encyclopedia of Education- al Theory and Philosophy . He is editor-in-chief of The Handbook of Patri - otism [http://refworks.springer.com/ Patriotism] that is to be published by Springer in 2018. Mitja Sardoč (PhD) je zaposlen kot raziskovalec na Pedagoškem inštitu- tu v Ljubljani, kjer je član programske skupine ‘Družbena pogodba v 21. stoletju’. Je avtor znanstvenih in strokovnih člankov s širšega področja vzgoje in izobraževanja ter urednik vrste tematskih številk domačih in tu- jih znanstvenih revij s področja državljanske vzgoje, multikulturalizma, enakih možnosti itn. Je glavni urednik revije Theory and Research in Edu - cation, odgovorni urednik revije Šolsko polje ter član uredniškega odbora revij Educational Philosophy and Theory ter Open Review of Educational Research. Je tudi urednik dveh zbornikov, ki sta izšli pri založbi Blackwell (Citizenship, Inclusion and Democracy ter Toleration, Respect and Recog- nition in Education), avtor monografije Multikulturalizem: pro et contra ter soavtor monografije Enake možnosti in družbena (ne)enakost v druž- bi znanja. Je urednik publikacije Handbook of Patriotism, ki bo izšla pri založbi Springer. Darko Štrajn Darko Štrajn graduated in philosophy and sociology, Faculty of Arts – University in Ljubljana. He was heading the programme in education- al research at the Educational Research Institute from 1999 to 2014. He is also the professor of philosophy, lecturing on methodology of human- ities and film theory at the graduate School for Studies in Humanities (ISH) in Ljubljana. His research comprises topics such as education and social change, politics, aesthetics and media. His last book under the title From Benjamin to the End of Cinema (available on-line) was pub- lished in 2017.