{"title":"Libertarian Education and its Limitations","authors":"A. Gezerlis","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000109824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000109824","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper, starting from a critique of the modern educational system and a brief discussion of the concepts of hierarchy and authority in education, offers a critical examination of a number of libertarian approaches to education. These libertarian approaches to education are examined within the framework of a conception of Democratic paideia, which is in its turn hastily presented in the concluding section. The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Gibbon","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133674949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Democratic Chorus: Culture, Dialogue and Polyphonic Paideia","authors":"Damon A. Young","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000109815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000109815","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sensible dialogue is essential to any healthy democracy. Dialogue, in turn, requires some grasp of the traditions within which it occurs. However, late capitalism is characterised by the systematic corruption of cultural traditions by mechanism and atomism. While the tradition of capitalism remains, our capacity to recognise and creatively overcome it is corrupted. As an alternative to this, we require a bold vision of healthy cultural life. This paper argues that such a vision can be found in the Chorus of Classical Greek tragedy. Grounded in narrative theory and the work of Bakhtin and Bourdieu, this account of the Chorus gives an alternative to the superficiality of late modernity. It is a vision of democratic citizens doing justice to themselves and one another through narrative paideia. Greek tragedy does its thinking in a form which is vastly more politically advanced than the society which produced Greek tragedy1. Edith Hall","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115973068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why the War on Iraq? An Open Letter to the European Peoples","authors":"John Gerassi","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000109806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000109806","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127030841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derrida, Lyotard and the Orientations of a New Academic Responsibility","authors":"P. Trifonas","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074977","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115273321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Pedagogy and Class Struggle in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization: Notes from History's Underside1","authors":"Peter McLaren","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074959","url":null,"abstract":"Within the North American progressive education tradition, critical pedagogy has been a widely discussed project of educational reform that challenges students to become politically literate so that they might better understand and transform how power and privilege works on a daily basis in contemporary social contexts. As a project of social transformation, critical pedagogy is touted as an important protagonist in the struggle for social and economic justice, yet it has rarely ever challenged the fundamental basis of capitalist social relations. Among the many and varied proponents of critical pedagogy in the USA, Marxist analysis has been virtually absent; in fact, over the last decade, its conceptual orientation has been more closely aligned with postmodernism and poststructuralism. This paper argues that unless class analysis and class struggle play a central role in critical pedagogy, it is fated to go the way of most liberal reform movements of the past, melding into calls for fairer resource distr...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"31 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116423627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utopian Thinking Under the Sign of Neoliberalism: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Educated Hope","authors":"Henry A. Giroux","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074968","url":null,"abstract":"As the vast majority of people become detached from public forums that nourish social critique, agency not only becomes a mockery of itself, it is replaced by market-based choices in which private satisfactions replace social responsibilities and private solutions become a substitute for systemic change. As the worldly space of criticism is undercut by the absence of public pedagogies and spaces that encourage the exchange of information, opinion and criticism, the horizons of an inclusive and substantive democracy disappear against the growing militarization of public space, the attack on the welfare state, the ongoing commercialization of everyday life, and the growing isolation and depoliticization that marks the loss of a politically guaranteed public realm in which autonomy, political participation and engaged citizenship make their appearance. Drawing upon the work of Cornelius Castoriadis, Zygmunt Bauman and others the author addresses the current crisis of meaning, political agency and pedagogy, a...","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125948469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Critical Theory of Education","authors":"D. Kellner","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074940","url":null,"abstract":"I propose developing a critical theory of education for the new millennium articulating a metatheory for the philosophy of education and key themes of a democratic reconstruction of education. These include developing new literacies as a response to new technologies, a new critical pedagogy to meet the challenges of globalization and multiculturalism, and radical democratization to counter the trend toward the imposition of a neo-liberal business model on education. I argue that democratic reconstruction of education needs to build on and synthesize perspectives of classical philosophy of education, Deweyean radical pragmatism, Freirean critical pedagogy, poststructuralism, and various critical theories of gender, race, class and society.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"146 S282","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132906295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From (Mis)education to Paideia","authors":"Takis Fotopoulos","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074931","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is twofold: first, to discuss the institutional preconditions of a democratic paideia, both at the social level and the educational level itself; and second, to examine a transition strategy for the move from present miseducation (as it evolved in modernity) to a democratic paideia through an emancipatory education process. A basic tenet of the approach adopted by this paper is that education is intrinsically linked to politics as the very meaning of education is assumed to be defined by the prevailing meaning of politics.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115250590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Radical Green Political Theory","authors":"Chamsy Ojeili","doi":"10.1080/1085566032000074995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566032000074995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133889708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kropotkin's Ethical Naturalism","authors":"B. Morris","doi":"10.1080/1085566022000022119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1085566022000022119","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the ethical theory of Peter Kropotkin who followed Aristotle, Spinoza and Darwin in affirming a naturalistic approach to ethics. After outlining Kropotkin's basic theory, which put a focal emphasis on mutual aid, justice and magnanimity in the interpretation of moral values, the paper responds to the familiar criticisms of the anarchist, who is alleged to have committed the so-called 'naturalistic fallacy'. By this is meant deriving moral values from facts about the world. Drawing on Warnock's and Dennett's recent writings the paper defends Kropotkin's essential thesis.","PeriodicalId":201357,"journal":{"name":"Democracy & Nature","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133662408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}