The idea of a democratic education in the English context has lost a considerable amount of ground since the 1960s. Here I argue that such is the dominance of neoliberal understandings of education over the Right and much of the social democratic Left that new thinking is required. I begin by considering the view that we have now become so post-democratic that people no longer wish to be free. It is in this context that we may talk about the alterity of democracy. I explore different ideas about how we might seek to link education to ideas of the commons, thereby connecting the idea of education to more participatory notions of citizenship. All of these ideas need to be revived in the context of a state that increasingly controls schools fr...
In this paper, the author (re)considers Dewey’s ideas about the role of education in developing demo...
An initial attempt is made to draw connections between politics and education. A paradox exists in f...
In Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education, the author suggests...
The idea of a democratic education in the English context has lost a considerable amount of ground s...
Can education change society? It is one of the main questions to be asked in neoliberal and neoconse...
We live in a time when the very meaning of democracy is being radically changed. Democracy is indeed...
Over the last couple of decades, the narrative of educational competitiveness and the current clima...
The ideas of the New Left and the recently emerged alter-globalisation movements are marginal within...
In the first chapter of this thesis, I examine the similarities between the concept of democracy a...
At a time when there are renewed expressions of concern about how our societies are organised and th...
Compared to the international mainstream educational agenda, which is widely sustained by a neo-libe...
This thesis is in two parts. First, the relationship between different models of democracy is explo...
In 20th century's European theory of education there was little interest in philosophy ofdemocracy. ...
Democracy is a never-ending challenge. Plato’s warning about the decadence of the soul under democr...
The text discusses the relationship between education and democratic organization of the republican ...
In this paper, the author (re)considers Dewey’s ideas about the role of education in developing demo...
An initial attempt is made to draw connections between politics and education. A paradox exists in f...
In Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education, the author suggests...
The idea of a democratic education in the English context has lost a considerable amount of ground s...
Can education change society? It is one of the main questions to be asked in neoliberal and neoconse...
We live in a time when the very meaning of democracy is being radically changed. Democracy is indeed...
Over the last couple of decades, the narrative of educational competitiveness and the current clima...
The ideas of the New Left and the recently emerged alter-globalisation movements are marginal within...
In the first chapter of this thesis, I examine the similarities between the concept of democracy a...
At a time when there are renewed expressions of concern about how our societies are organised and th...
Compared to the international mainstream educational agenda, which is widely sustained by a neo-libe...
This thesis is in two parts. First, the relationship between different models of democracy is explo...
In 20th century's European theory of education there was little interest in philosophy ofdemocracy. ...
Democracy is a never-ending challenge. Plato’s warning about the decadence of the soul under democr...
The text discusses the relationship between education and democratic organization of the republican ...
In this paper, the author (re)considers Dewey’s ideas about the role of education in developing demo...
An initial attempt is made to draw connections between politics and education. A paradox exists in f...
In Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democratic Education, the author suggests...