The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education

A comprehensive overview of the most important ideas, issues, and thinkers within democratic education today.

Julian Culp (Edited by), Johannes Drerup (Edited by), Douglas Yacek (Edited by)

9781316512999, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 April 2023

679 pages
26.2 x 18.5 x 3.9 cm, 1.39 kg

'This collection is necessary reading for scholars and students of democratic education. As the new standard-bearer in the field, the volume includes a thoughtfully broad range of approaches across global perspectives. At a time of increasing anxieties regarding the fragility of democracy and the educational projects that might support it, this handbook provides a clear-eyed view of the best of the tradition and the possibilities ahead.' Winston Thompson, The Ohio State University, USA

What kind of education is needed for democracy? How can education respond to the challenges that current democracies face? This unprecedented Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most important ideas, issues, and thinkers within democratic education. Its thirty chapters are written by leading experts in the field in an accessible format. Its breadth of purpose and depth of analysis will appeal to both researchers and practitioners in education and politics. The Handbook addresses not only the historical roots and philosophical foundations of democratic education, but also engages with contemporary political issues and key challenges to the project of democratic education.

Introduction: 1. What is democratic education and why should we care? Julian Culp, Johannes Drerup, and Douglas Yacek
Part I. Historical Perspectives: 2. Plato on democratic education Mark E. Jonas
3. Aristotle on education, democracy, and civic friendship Randall Curren
4. Rousseau on democratic education Avi Mintz
5. Dewey on democratic education Natalia Rogach Alexander
6. Hannah Arendt on the very possibility of democratic education Roland Reichenbach
7. Paulo Freire on democratic education Peter Roberts
8. Rabindranath Tagore on democratic education Ratna Ghosh
Part II. Philosophical and Normative Foundations: 9. Normative case studies as democratic education Meira Levinson and Ellis Reid
10. Moral education and democratic education Michael Hand
11. Rawlsian political liberalism and democratic education Blain Neufeld
12. Social justice education and democratic legitimacy Lauren Bialystok
13. Critical theory, local moral perception, and democratic education Drew Chambers
14. Democratic deliberation in the absence of integration Michael Merry
15. Education and democratic citizenship: Capabilities and quality education Martha Nussbaum
Part III. Key Topics and Concepts: 16. Educational justice and democratic education Stefan Gosepath
17. Global justice and democratic education Krassimir Stojanov
18. Debate and deliberation in democratic education Jane Lo and Paula McAvoy
19. Agonistic democracy and the question of education Gert Biesta
20. Punishment and democratic education Bryan Warnick and A. C. Nikolaidis
21. Children's rights and democratic education Colin Macleod
22. Education, trust and the conversation of democracy Anthony Laden
23. Patriotism and democratic education Richard Dagger
24. The voice of poetry in cultivating cosmopolitan and democratic imagination David T. Hansen and Yuval Dwek
25. Disability and democratic education Franziska Felder
Part IV. Challenges: 26. Wealth stratification in US higher education and democratic education, 1890s–2020s Bruce Kimball and Sarah Iler
27. Mentoring and instructional duties of professors Harry Brighouse
28. Racism, moral transformation, and democratic education Ilya Shodajee-Zrudlo
29. Postcolonial perspectives on democratic education Penny Enslin and Kai Horsthemke
30. Populist challenges to democratic education Jürgen Oelkers
31. Religion and democratic education Brett Bertucio
32. The epistocratic challenge to democratic education Ben Kotzee
33. Climate change and democratic education Anders Schinkel
34. The COVID-19 pandemic and democratic education Johannes Giesinger
35. Teacher neutrality, pedagogical impartiality and democratic education Bruce Maxwell.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC]