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Radical Philosophy - Children of postcommunism - 0 views

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    A curious set of metaphors marks the jargon of postcommunist transition: education for democracy, classrooms of democracy, democratic exams, democracy that is growing and maturing, but which might still be in diapers or making its first steps or, of cours
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Did the Egalitarian Reforms of the Swedish Educational System Equalise Levels of Democr... - 0 views

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    In the mid-1990s an extensive reform of the Swedish educational system was initiated in order to create a 'school for everyone' intended to function like a 'social equaliser'. The new unified gymnasium initiated longer educational programmes with an exten
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE - Critical Asian Studies - 0 views

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    Examining the historical trajectory of these two "models" and the transformative practice that produced relatively high human development outcomes, the article identifies some common elements behind their success, highlighting the centrality of public act
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Brown Policy and the Moral Pillars of Democracy: Exploring Justice as the Organizing Pr... - 0 views

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    The purpose of this article is to revisit Brown as a paradigmatic understanding of social justice and its barriers, by reconsidering Brown in light of the three moral pillars of democracy identified by Cornel West (2004). West maintains that authentic dee
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Educating for Democracy -- Cam 56 (4): 37 -- Diogenes - 0 views

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    The author, a specialist in philosophy for children who is recognized worldwide, presents the conceptual and philosophical framework within which the idea of early education in philosophical discussion is situated. A theory of education and its place in s
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Democracy and Nature: Speaking and Listening. Andrew Dobson. 2010; Political Studies - 0 views

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    This article is about the nature of democracy in environmental politics, with special reference to the issue of representation, and to the issues of speaking and listening. It is argued that politics has always been regarded as concerned with 'speechifyin
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Un-contented characters: an education in the shared practices of democratic engagement ... - 0 views

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    How should children be educated for democratic politics in ways that do not undermine their diverse needs, ideas, and interests? The dual challenges for a democratic theory of education are, first, to protect the pluralism of the young from standardizatio
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POPULAR LAMENTS Affective literacy, democratization and war - Cultural Studies - 0 views

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    This essay focuses on the cultural literacy that popular songs of lament in the Philippines in the1970s and 1980s created and depended on and discusses the way this cultural literacy contributed to the popular revolt against the dictatorship in 1986. I fo
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Teaching Global Citizenship - 0 views

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    Pilot education course has undergrads learning in Ghana from U of A alumnus-who happens to be the village chief.
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Cover story: 'China's new intelligentsia' by Mark Leonard | Prospect Magazine March 200... - 0 views

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    Wang Hui is one of the leaders of the new left, a loose grouping of intellectuals who are increasingly capturing the public mood and setting the tone for political debate through their articles in journals such as Dushu. Wang Hui was a student of literatu
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'Of, by, and for are not merely prepositions': teaching and learning Conflict Resolutio... - 0 views

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    Universities that promote a liberal education through creative, cross-cultural curriculum nurture the goals of democracy and assist students in becoming 'citizens of the world.' Democratic education for social justice and global consciousness are necessar
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Global Human Rights Awareness, Education and Democratization - Journal of Human Rights - 0 views

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    The 1990s was the era of human rights awareness, democratic transitions, and growing involvement of international organizations and the nongovernmental sector in human rights education (HRE). The UN Decade for HRE from 1995-2004 was not only born out of t
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Education and Culture - Toward a Fully Realized Human Being: Dewey's Active-Individual-... - 0 views

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    This essay explores the conception of the individual in Dewey's democratic writings. Following Dewey's lead, I argue that it is human individuality, including our impulses, habits, and capacities, along with an appropriate environment, that represents the
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Global Voices Online » Hong Kong: Election Consultation Deferred… It's Dog-Sp... - 0 views

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    In the Legislative Council question-and-answer session yesterday, chief executive Donald Tsang said the public consultation on the electoral arrangements in 2012 would be deferred until the fourth quarter to focus on tackling economic and livelihood conce
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The Pedagogy of Global Development: the promotion of electoral democracy and the Latin ... - 0 views

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    This contribution uses insights from the field of critical pedagogy to study North-South power relations. It analyses the attempts of the European Union to promote democracy in the 'developing world', or Global South. The metaphor of development helps to
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Dissent, criticism, and transformative political action in deliberative democracy - Cri... - 0 views

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    Many discussions of deliberative democracy ignore or misunderstand the purposes of the ideal speech situation in Habermas' theory. These purposes are to show the possibility of dissent in actual communication and of supplying a normative standard of socia
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