Democratic education and a democratic society: Philosophical perspectives explored

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-457
Author(s):  
Irving J. Spitzberg
Retos ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
José Juan Barba Martín

La escuela siempre camina por detrás de la sociedad. Primero se producen los cambios sociales y, posteriormente, los cambios en lasestructuras que permiten mantener la sociedad, como es el caso de las escuelas y los institutos. Hace años que en la sociedad Española se implantó lademocracia como forma de gobierno, pero en el caso de las escuelas parece que la situación de poder casi absoluto del profesorado se perpetúa. En lassiguientes páginas se realiza una crítica sobre la autoridad en el aula. En un primer momento tratando de comprender qué es la autoridad y de qué formasse manifiesta. A continuación, se presentan prácticas pedagógicas que pueden ayudar a hacer de la Educación Física un área más democrática.Abstract: The school always walks behind society. First come the social changes, then changes in the social institutions follow, like in the case of theschools. Years ago, Spain became a democratic society; yet, in its schools, the absolute power of the faculty is still perpetuated. In the following pages,I criticise autocratic authority in the classroom in an attempt to understand what authority is in what ways it manifests itself. Next, I introduce practicalpedagogical suggestions that may help make Physical Education a more democratic subject matter.


2021 ◽  
pp. 175774382110246
Author(s):  
Christer Mattsson

As part of the general curricular ambitions of contributing to the development of a democratic society, Swedish schools are mandated to actively combat racism and extremism. This causes particular challenges when teachers encounter students who have been brought up in environments where racist and extremist worldviews dominate. This study analyses four Swedish neo-Nazi leaders’ experiences of schooling and how they have utilised these experiences when establishing an approach for their children’s schooling. The focal point of the analysis is the ideological dilemmas that arise from clashes of conviction among neo-Nazi leaders, their children and the teachers. The results show how neo-Nazi leaders use their own negative experiences of schooling to prepare their children on how to escape both democratic education and prevent social stigmatisation.


Conatus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Jasmin Özel ◽  
David Beisecker ◽  
Joe Ervin

We argue for a reconsideration of the claim that Spinoza’s perfectionist conception of education was ushering in a form of radical humanism distinctly favorable to democratic ideals. With the rise of democratic societies and the corresponding need to constitute educational institutions within those societies, a more thoroughgoing commitment to democratic social ideals arose, first and foremost in American educational thought. This commitment can be seen especially in Dewey’s philosophy of education. Specifically, Dewey and Spinoza had strikingly distinct conceptions of the overall aims of schooling. While Spinoza takes the aim of education to be the perfection of a student’s original nature, Dewey takes education to involve the collective acquisition of an additional nature, reflecting the norms and expectations of one’s specific community. In this paper, we juxtapose these two distinct conceptions of education alongside one another, with an eye towards illuminating the limitations of a perfectionist theory of education for the individual, as we find it in Spinoza, within a democratic society.


Pythagoras ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert B. Khuzwayo ◽  
Sarah Bansilal

An important aspect of democratic education is the value it places on providing spaces for disagreement and argument as opportunities for learning. This is unlike an ‘occupation of the minds’ philosophy, which denies people the right to see alternatives. In this article we explore one aspect of this area of democratic education: the issue of providing opportunities for learners’ voices. We acknowledge the importance of this, even if the voices are dissenting; such dissent is important for teachers to learn more about the learners. We subsequently look at the kind of listening that a teacher can do in order to learn, and consider some cases from literature about teachers who struggle to listen and what happens when they learn to listen to their learners. Finally, we argue that a perspective aligned with preparing learners to contribute to a democratic society advises a rethink of the construct of mathematical knowledge for teaching. By learning how to listen in a respectful manner and as part of a negotiation and co-evolution of shared understanding, teachers can deepen and shift their understanding of mathematics, their understanding of learners and their understanding of their own learning.


1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-200
Author(s):  
Nawawi Nawawi

The system of national education considered necessary a reform. During the time national education only yielding depressed human being, is not critical and is not creative, thinking and acting only according to power structure. National education have to be returned to powered of society and to realize the new vision of society Indonesia which Madani. National education represent the demand foundament commended by constitution 1945. Therefore national education have to as according to constitution, realizing democratic society, esteem the human right and form of government smart Indonesian nation.


Metahumaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ari J. Adipurwawijdana

ABSTRAKRiwayat yang disajikan penulis Britania era Viktorian tentang perjalannnya ke Amerikamengasumsikan adanya sebuah jaringan prasarana transportasi. Sistem transportasiterkait dengan riwayat perjalanan (travel narrative) dalam tiga hal, yaitu (1) sebagaibasis material bagi perjalanan, (2) sebagai substruktur riwayat, dan (3) sebagai pokokpembicaraan dalam riwayat itu sendiri. Buku Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)merupakan model bagi cara infrastruktur transportasi menentukan aspek naratologis,yaitu urutan dan perspektif dalam struktur naratif riwayat perjalanan. Karya tersebut jugamenyajikan transportasi sebagai pokok pembicaraan dalam teksnya itu sendiri walaupun tidaksejauh sebagaimana yang tampak pada The Amateur Emigrant (1895) karya Robert LouisStevenson. Dalam hal ini, The American Scene (1907) karya Henry James juga relevankarena, walaupun tidak secara gamblang membicarakan transportasi sebagai topik dantidak pula menampakkan ciri-ciri riwayat perjalanan, karya tersebut merepresentasicara wawasan Britania-Amerika trans-Atlantik dianggap sebagai sesuatu yang lumrah.Wawasan ini juga memandang menganggap perjalanan trans-Atlantik sebagai semacamperjalanan menembus waktu, yang menunjukkan ketidaknyaman para penulis Britaniaabad kesembilanbelas terhadap transformasi sosial ke masyrakat demokratis yangdirepresentasi secara metaforis oleh pemahaman mereka tentang Amerika.Kata kunci: catatan perjalanan Viktorian, transportasi, wisataABSTRACTNarratives presented by Victorian British writers about their travels to America assume theavailability of a transprtation infrastructure system. Such a system is related to the travelnarrative in three things, namely, (1) as a material base for travel, (2) as a narrative substructurehistory, and (3) as the subject-matter of the narratives. Fanny Trollope’s Domestic Mannerof the Americans (1832) is a model for the way transportation infrastructure determinesnarratological aspects, namely order and perspective in the structure of the travel narrative.The piece also presents transportation as a subject-matter in its text although it does notgo so far as do Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Amateur Emigrant (1895). In discussingtransportation Henry James’ The American Scene is also relevant because, despite it’s notexplicitly speaking of transportation as a topic nor does it show the convential characteristicsof the travel narrative, the work represents a British-American trans-Atlantic world viewas a given. This world view also considers trans-Atlantic travels as a kind of voyage acrosstime, implying the discomfort of nineteenth-century British writers concerning the socialtransition into a democratic society represented by America as a metaphor.Keywords: Victorian travel narrative, transportation, tourism


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