The Democratic Public to Be Brought into Existence and Education as Secularization

Autor/in	Oliverio, Stefano
Titel	The Democratic Public to Be Brought into Existence and Education as Secularization
Quelle	In: Education and Culture, 30 (2014) 2, S.5-20, Artikel 2 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1085-4908
DOI	10.1353/eac.2014.0016
Schlagwörter	Democracy; Social Theories; Role of Education; Educational Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Demokratie; Gesellschaftstheorie; Bildungsauftrag; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie
Abstract	The paper tackles the fundamental question of whether democracy has by now been turned into a meaningless liturgy of a past religion and proposes a Deweyan answer which points to the need to fully realize modernity in order to bring into existence a genuine democracy. By deploying an archaeological reading of "The Public and Its Problems" and, in particular, of the key notion of the "official," it is shown how giving birth to an authentically democratic public demands coming to terms with a re-signification of the idea of transubstantiation, fully valorising education as communication and promoting a "secularized" community. This Deweyan perspective can help us avoid the modern dichotomies that risk haunting even some of the most advanced contemporary educational proposals, which currently struggle against the rationalist outcomes of modernity by invoking "other communities." (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10