Abstract
Dewey was perhaps the foremost theorist and advocate of participatory democracy as an ethical ideal based on a belief and faith in human experience as a general theory of education that would gener...
Highlights
Dewey was the most important advocate of participatory democracy, that is, of the belief that democracy as an ethical ideal calls upon men and women to build communities in which the necessary opportunities and resources are available for every individual to realize his or her particular capacities and powers through participation in political, social, and cultural life. – Westbrook, R
An introduction to the philosophy of education (Dewey, 1916/2001) suggesting education for democracy is ‘sharing in common life’. As he asserts in My Pedagogic Creed (Dewey, 1897, p. 15): ‘education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction’
Inquiring of the relation between democracy and education today, we have to acknowledge certain historical changes from Dewey’s era and from Rorty’s era even if we accept the general case for pragmatism, naturalism and participatory democracy, as we are inclined to do so
Summary
Dewey was the most important advocate of participatory democracy, that is, of the belief that democracy as an ethical ideal calls upon men and women to build communities in which the necessary opportunities and resources are available for every individual to realize his or her particular capacities and powers through participation in political, social, and cultural life. – Westbrook, R. KEYWORDS Dewey; democracy; globalization; collective intelligence; ecology; digital turn
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