Doret J. de Ruyter

Professor of Education and Philosophy at University of Humanistic Studies

Doret de Ruyter is a leading philosopher of education whose work bridges ethics, personal identity, and educational flourishing. She has written extensively on the moral aims of education, the role of autonomy, and the relationship between well-being and character formation, contributing a nuanced European perspective to debates on moral education. De Ruyter complements Lerner by offering a philosophical and normative perspective on relationality and moral development, grounded in the concept of human flourishing.