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Democracy and Decency: What Does Education Have to Do With It?

Democracy and Decency: What Does Education Have to Do With It?

Thomas, Paul L.
Carr, Paul R.
Porfilio, Brad J.

Paperback

Series: Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society

General Education

ISBN10: 168123324X
ISBN13: 9781681233246
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Feb 11 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Democracy can mean a range of concepts, covering everything from freedoms, rights, elections, governments, processes, philosophies and a panoply of abstract and concrete notions that can be mediated by power, positionality, culture, time and space. Democracy can also be translated into brute force, hegemony, docility, compliance and conformity, as in wars will be decided on the basis of the needs of elites, or major decisions about spending finite resources will be the domain of the few over the masses, or people will be divided along the lines of race, ethnicity, class, religion, etc. because it is advantageous for maintaining exploitative political systems in place to do so. Often, these frameworks are developed and reified based on the notion that elections give the right to societies, or segments of societies, to install regimes, institutions and operating systems that are then supposedly legitimated and rendered infinitely just because formal power resides in the hands of those dominating forces.

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