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Feb 23, 2022 · It is for this reason that democratic education needs to be decolonized too because it may be argued that each different discourse of democratic education—for example, neoliberalism, liberal democracy, deliberative democracy, critical theory, multiculturalism, participatory democracy, and agonistic democracy—entails the risk of re-inscribing the colonial/democracy relationship and ...
- Michalinos Zembylas
Apr 18, 2024 · This line of thought is also evident in work that has focused on those moments in which democracy does happen to occur in schools and other educational settings, as for example, in Ruitenberg’s (Citation 2008) question about whether the concept of ‘democratic education’ in schools is even possible when we understand democracy in Rancière’s radical terms. Adopting a strongly anti ...
Jul 11, 2019 · Giroux and other critical pedagogues have described their proposals for democracy as “radical democracy.” The term radical democracy within democratic education, however, has been claimed by those aligned with critical, participatory (in line with Dewey), and agonistic discourses (Brent Edwards, 2010; Snir, 2017). To avoid this overlap, in ...
- Edda Sant
- 2019
As Michael Peters and Tina Besley write, ‘democracy – its theory, practice and educational applications – has been a favoured topic for philosophers of education’ ever since Dewey’s Democracy and Education ‘even although it [democracy] rarely matched reality’ (Peters and Besley Citation 2021, 1). Indeed, the realities of a worldwide democratic recession, despite a steady rise in ...
Nov 14, 2017 · ‘Democratic education’ and/or ‘democracy in education’ may ... In this sense, democracy is an example of authoritative discourse. ... Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical ...
- Ashley Simpson, Fred Dervin
- 2017
Oct 11, 2021 · According to Amsler (2015), radical democracy fights the superficiality of the concept conceived of by many schools, and for Fielding (2011) this type of democracy counters one that is ‘adulterated’ and of poor quality and that inexorably leads to a decaffeinated version of the democratic experience. Both authors criticize that democracy in school is, in most cases, only a showcase issue ...
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Aug 22, 2023 · For Dewey, ‘democracy is more than a form of government: it is primarily a mode of associated living, a conjoint communicated experience’ (Dewey, Citation 1916/1944, p. 87); and being active citizens in the life of a community, personal growth and the growth of democracy are all key elements in his philosophy of education. Unless democratic habits of thought and action are part of the ...
