Beschrijving
Interested in the ethical and political responsibilities on those who care about education, The Struggle for Democracy in Education interrogates conflicting models of democratic education and asks us to confront both progressive and retrogressive forces to ask what we can do to ensure that education created is worthy of its name.
The Struggle for Democracy in Education extends the insightful arguments Michael W. Apple provided in Can Education Change Society? It provides detailed examinations of both local and system-wide struggles around conflicting versions of democracy. Grounded in a key set of ethical and political responsibilities for those who care deeply about education, Apple and his co-authors interrogate conflicting models of democratic education, one interested in the common good and the creation of critical citizens, the other market-oriented and meant to meet a set of more conservative economic needs. Through a series of powerful international case studies, this volume explores the contested terrain, combining powerful theory with the \