Educating Democracy: Conjunctures in the Long Revolution

Autor/in	Ranson, Stewart
Titel	Educating Democracy: Conjunctures in the Long Revolution
Quelle	In: FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 56 (2014) 3, S.377-400 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-8253
DOI	10.15730/forum.2014.56.3.377
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Democratic Values; Governance; Educational History; Educational Change; Social Change; Historical Interpretation; Political Influences; Social Justice; Role of Education; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Political Issues; Social Action; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bildungsreform; Sozialer Wandel; Historische Interpretation; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Bildungsauftrag; Politics of education; Ausland; Politischer Faktor; Soziales Handeln; Großbritannien
Abstract	Democratic comprehensive education has been the target of neo-liberal governments--Conservative and New Labour--for thirty years. The project of the present right wing regime Coalition is to complete the demolition. The question before the social democratic tradition is thus to ask whether Raymond Williams' historic "long revolution" unfolding over a century and more, to create an educated democracy, is now halted or even lies in ruins. Only an analysis of this "longue durée" can enable understanding of how we are to remake the future. Drawing upon Brian Simon's extraordinary history I construct different formations of education governance since the mid nineteenth century. An emergent theory of transformation is then proposed such that reforms to education and democracy need to be understood together as responses to periods of structural change, conjunctures, that generate crises and lead to political settlements: these expand but regulate participation and opportunity in order to preserve as far as possible prevailing traditions of power. The reform of education lies at the centre of the regulation of democracy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10