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SUMMARY:Schools for democracy - Michael Fielding\, Emeritus Professor of E
 ducation at the Institute of Education\, University of London
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:In this session I will develop an argument for schools as demo
 cratic institutions in which the partnership between adults and young peop
 le takes seriously Dewey’s notion that democracy is a ‘mode of associa
 ted living embedded in the culture and social relationships of everyday li
 fe’. I suggest a 10 point framework for democracy and illustrate key poi
 nts with examples from primary\, secondary and special school contexts. So
 me examples deliberately draw on radical democratic traditions of educatio
 n in publicly funded schools\, thus countering ‘the enormous condescensi
 on of posterity’ so typical of contemporary neo-liberalism which puts it
 s faith in an increasingly desperate insistence that There Is No Alternati
 ve.
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, room 2S4
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