Educating for Democratic Consciousness
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Educating for Democratic Consciousness

Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities

  1. 292 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Educating for Democratic Consciousness

Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities

About this book

This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
There is a widespread, but mainly untenable, assumption that education in Western societies (and elsewhere) intuitively and horizontally aids the democratic development of people. An argument could be made that in contemporary liberal democracies, education was never designed for the well-being of societies. Instead of the full inclusion of everyone in educational development, it becomes dominated by those with a vested interest in the role of the liberal state as a mediating agent that, ultimately, assures the supremacy of the capitalism and neoliberalism. This book extends beyond a theoretical analysis of democratic education, seeking to tap into the substantial experiences, perspectives and research of a wide range of leading scholars from diverse vantage points, who bring themselves and their work into the debate connecting democracy and education, which elucidates the reference to counter-hegemonic possibilities in the title.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Educating for Democratic Consciousness
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Foreword: Democracy Does Not Fall From the Sky
  6. Chapter 1: Framing Contemporary Democracy and the Potential for Counterhegemonic Possibilities
  7. Chapter 2: Recontextualizing and Reculturing Education for ‟Democratic” Consciousness: Social and Philosophical Analyses
  8. Chapter 3: Reshaping the Democratic Truth, and Rethinking Democracy without Elections
  9. Chapter 4: Democratic Education, Thinking Out Differently
  10. Chapter 5: Reinventing Democracy Challenges and Counterhegemonic Alternatives for Brazilian Education
  11. Chapter 6: Relocating the Debate on Democracy, Language, and Schooling Challenges for Educators Working with Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students
  12. Chapter 7: The End of the Obedient Neoliberal Citizen Differential Consciousness and Reimagining Citizenship in a Time of Transformation
  13. Chapter 8: Democratic Public Education in the Age of Empire and the Multitude
  14. Chapter 9: Animating Democracy The Civic and Pedagogical Imperatives
  15. Chapter 10: What We Are Willing to Know Deconstructing UNESCO
  16. Chapter 11: Education and Democracy under Neoliberal Knowledge Imperialism
  17. Chapter 12: Challenging Neoliberal Anti-Intellectualism, Consumerism, and Utilitarianism Achieving Deweyian and Freirean Visions of Critically Engaged Citizens
  18. Chapter 13: Democracy as a Practice of Resistance and Resilience against Tyranny
  19. Chapter 14: Iron Man Democracy Militainment and Democratic Possibilities
  20. Chapter 15: Inventing Democracy Teaching and Togetherness
  21. Chapter 16: Vibrant Democracy Requires More Than Facts and Acts “Ordinary Politics” for Youth Political Engagement
  22. Chapter 17: Multiculturalism and Democratization in Switzerland and Canada
  23. Chapter 18: National Identity and the Education of Immigrants Greece and the Rights of “Non-Citizens”
  24. List of Contributors
  25. Index