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Jul 11, 2019 · This review aims to examine how democratic education is conceptualized within contemporary educational scholarship to support ongoing debate about its viability. The question of democratic education is particularly relevant in our moment.
- Edda Sant
- 2019
This article examines the relationships between education, democracy, and capitalism through the works of John Dewey, John Stuart Mill, and Adam Smith. It explores some basic questions that arise in developing an approach to education within our liberal democratic tradition.
Jul 11, 2019 · It is argued that the different versions of democratic education respond to various (a) ontological and epistemological assumptions, (b) normative approaches to democracy, and (c) conceptions of the relationship between education and politics.
- Edda Sant
- 2019
- The Need For A New Deal
- Postsecondary Education and Workforce Development
- Winners and Losers
- Higher Education as Job Training
- The Fairness Question
- Transparency, Efficiency, and Equity
The current populist rebellion suggests that we need a new deal between capitalism and democracy. An expanded vision for higher education is a crucial part of the bargain. A new deal between democracy and capitalism begins with the recognition that capitalism and democracy have always been uneasy allies in their common pursuit of human flourishing....
Since the early 1980s, the burgeoning postsecondary education and training system has become the nation's workforce development system. Of course, it is not news that education is a favored institution in U.S. culture: it conforms to our individualist biases, and we look to education to help us reconcile democratic citizenship with class difference...
The winners and losers are clear in this transition from an economy anchored in high school to an economy anchored in postsecondary education and training. High school graduates are being left behind. The good high school jobs are gone, and they're not coming back. High school alone no longer provides a living wage for women, and at most, only abou...
Some fear that the increasing economic value of a college/university education may force a choice between narrow economic needs and broader educational goals and that the result will be a commodification of higher education. They make an important point. The temptation to provide narrow vocational training rather than more general learning is stron...
In general, Americans seem happy with postsecondary education's more powerful economic role, which suits our individualist and market biases. Using education to allocate opportunity is popular because it provides a third way—between the inequalities that come with doctrinaire market fundamentalism and the personal dependency that comes with an expa...
Postsecondary education requires more money for more efficiency, more equity, and more transparency. We cannot afford all the postsecondary education we need without more efficiency, and we cannot achieve more equity without more efficiency. Postsecondary education has become the keystone in connecting economic opportunity to the rights of citizens...
Jun 29, 2017 · Education within capitalism too often reproduces social and economic inequalities. Schools are depicted as failing and teachers are blamed. In this paper, I examine the discourses underlying this s...
- Steven J Klees
- 2020
Beyond the tendency to rethink democracy and its education in association with current, striking challenges, Marianna Papastephanou investigates how the rethinking of curiosity in its ambiguous politics reveals complex and neglected challenges that democratic theory and education should address.
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Ultimately, theories of democracy need to address the overall inter- action between democracy and capitalism. Finally, theories of multiculturalism, so prevalent in the educational field
