Full Description
New Perspectives on Education for Democracy brings together diverse communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and democracy. This book synthesises a range of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical approaches to address the complex challenges faced by young people and societies in the 21st century. Each chapter provides accounts of local democratic encounters in education, while engaging with global debates and issues, such as de-democratisation and growing social, economic, and educational inequality. This book presents new ways of thinking about democracy, local-global enactments of democracy through teaching and learning, and future thinking for a new era of democracy. This book will be relevant for educators, researchers, and policymakers who are interested in educational sociology, critical pedagogy, and democratic education.
Contents
PART I—New ways of thinking about democracy 1. On the need for a new democracy of education in a post-pandemic world 2. Democracy in decline? Developing democratic re-orientations through plurality and deliberation 3. This is what isonomy looks like! 4. Re-imagining aspirations: A new transition planning framework supporting inclusive and democratic actions in schools PART II—Enacting democracy through teaching and learning 5. Country as teacher: Using stories from and for Country in Australian education for social and ecological renewal 6. The ordinary everyday: Centring the embodied practice of classroom teaching 7. Encountering a pedagogy of the world in a university setting 8. Students' experiences of overt data-talk in the classroom: "It's all just this stupid system" 9. Teacher workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy 10. Education for democracy: Culturally responsive practices and curriculum in teacher education 11. Critical affective literacy, feminist pedagogies, and democracy: Exploring possibilities for the high school English classroom PART III—Future thinking for a new era of democracy 12. Combating crisis and despair: Voice, choice, and agency for active, resilient citizenship 13. The certainty of nationalism in uncertain times: Disrupting the national givens of citizenship education 14. Passion as politics: An analysis of Australian newspaper reporting of institutional responses to the School Strikes for Climate 15. Relational pedagogy and democratic education
