THE EDUCATION STATE, CONVERSATION AND DEMOCRACY TO COME
THE EDUCATION STATE, CONVERSATION AND DEMOCRACY TO COME

Summary/Abstract: A new consensus about the purposes of education and knowledge creation in democratic societies is needed. Neoliberalism’s impoverished market model of the state and the citizen continue to be entrenched in social thinking through government policies and legislation, media representation, the dominance of the business and finance sectors of society as political interest groups, and curriculum change in the formal education system. Recovery of the idea of democratic governance and its more complete implementation depends upon a profound shift in the centre of gravity in nation states now claiming to be democracies, away from the economy and the cluster of interests it brings together and towards educating and learning as the primary focus of public policy.

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