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  • Title: Educating for Democracy: With Or Without Social Justice (Report)
  • Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
  • Release Date : January 22, 2008
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 219 KB

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Introduction Increasingly, there is an explicit, as well as an implicit, need to stress democratic values and engagement in education in order to bolster democracy (Portelli & Solomon, 2001). Students, and society at-large, understand that the world in which we live needs to be problematized, better understood, and more effectively connected, especially in light of the obvious inter-dependence between nations, entrenched social, political, military and economic problems, and the quest for human rights and dignity (Gandin & Apple, 2002). With neo-liberal trends blanketing education-systems internationally (Torres, 2005), there is also the counter-current of some educators, marginalized groups and progressive forces requesting a greater emphasis on citizenship, democracy and social justice in education (McLaren, 2007; Vincent, 2003). The debate over the role of education in democratic citizenship education (2) is, therefore, shrouded in controversy (Sears & Hughes, 2006), with some arguing for more competition, higher standards, greater accountability, and the infusion of business in education, and others maintaining that education should be more responsive to the needs of all students, serving as a leveling force to off-set the cultural capital (Delpit, 1996) that some students bring with them to school (Bales, 2006). This latter perspective advocates a more holistic, dynamic as opposed to prescriptive, and focused approach for enhancing student engagement related to social justice (Ayers, Hunt, & Quinn, 1988).


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