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Understanding the historical relationship between democracy and education, particularly how democracy was positioned as part of the development of public schools, as well as current approaches to democratic schooling, can help to revitalize the democratic mission of education.
Jun 13, 2023 · Democracy as a Way of Life: The Sharing of Experience through Participation in Communication. In every account of education for democracy, there is necessarily an understanding of what democracy is or should be at the core, which has implications for the kinds of citizens one is aiming to educate.
Aug 9, 2016 · What is particularly interesting about this book is the link Dewey highlights between democracy and education reflecting his advocacy of democracy. Democracy is not only about extending voting rights, a big issue in 1916, but also equipping citizens with the ability to take on the responsibility to make informed, intelligent choices and ...
Nov 14, 2023 · Democracy and democratic education have fallen into various crisis and are facing multiple challenges; this worry is shared by many educational theorists. Thus, today, there is an urgent call to rethink the relationship between education and democratization.
- Abstract
- 3 Education and civic participation
- 3.1 Why should education and civic participation be correlated?
- 4.2 Group equilibrium
- 5 Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
Across countries, education and democracy are highly correlated. We motivate empirically and then model a causal mechanism explaining this correlation. In our model, schooling teaches people to interact with others and raises the benefits of civic participa-tion, including voting and organizing. In the battle between democracy and dictatorship, dem...
Education may promote democracy because it raises the benefits (or reduces the costs) of political activity. In Sect. 4, we take this as an assumption and show how it explains the evi-dence. In this section, we describe some theories of why education raises civic participation and then present some empirical evidence bearing on them.
Perhaps the simplest hypothesis explaining the link between education and civic participa-tion is that indoctrination about political participation is a major component of education. In democracies, schools teach their students that political participation is good. One “con-tent standard” listed by the State of California’s Department of Education ...
Peer incentives for participation determine a social multiplier, which could be understood as a bandwagon effect. The more active members a group already has, the more likely to partic-ipate the remaining members are. The participation rate ai is then endogenously determined as a function of the exogenous parameters gi and h. In a group equilibrium...
The correlation between education and democracy is clear. The reason for this correlation is not. In this paper, we offer one explanation for the correlation. Our explanation hinges on the connection between education and the costs and benefits of political engagement. Schools socialize young people and political involvement is one form of socializ...
Glaeser thanks the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Ponzetto thanks the Marco Fanno and the Mario Gasbarri Foundations. We are grateful to Timothy Besley, Filipe Campante, Ruben Enikolopov, Oded Galor, Nicola Gennaioli, Elhanan Helpman, Elias Papaiouannou, Richard Posner, Joshua Schwartzstein, Sidney Verba, and two anonymous referees ...
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John Dewey's Democracy and Education is the touchstone for a great deal of modern educational theory. It covers a wide range of themes and issues relating to education, including teaching, learning, educational environments, subject matter, values, and the nature of work and play.
Apr 6, 2022 · The research question that frames this article is: How can the relationship between democracy and education be conceptualised and understood in terms of civic literacy? Starting in the first section of this article, the features of liberal democracy and some of its challenges are discussed.
