Does Your Vote Count? - Critical Pedagogy and Democracy (Hardcover, New edition)

The public debate on democracy is often constrained within an alienating and disenfranchising narrative of opinion polls, campaign platforms, personalities and formal structures that generate legislation, all of which surreptitiously seems to trickle down to the classroom. Paul R. Carr asserts that democracy must be cultivated in a vigorous, conscientious, meaningful and critical way in and through education in order for it to have salience in society, especially within a neoliberal conjuncture that promotes limited space for epistemological interrogation of how we understand and are engaged in maintaining and/or transforming our societies. Building on the critical pedagogical work of Paulo Freire, Joe L. Kincheloe, and others, this book develops a framework for understanding how a thicker democratic education can be conceptualized and implemented in schools. The book aims to move the focus on democracy away from voting, and place it more properly on the importance of social justice and political literacy as a way of understanding what democracy is and, importantly, how to make it more relevant for all of society. The book concludes that another democracy is possible, as well as being desirable, and that education is the fundamental intersection in which it must be developed.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Counterpoints, 378
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Paul R. Carr
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	333
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0812-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4331-0812-7
Barcode:	9781433108129

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