The Education State, Conversation and Democracy to Come
The Education State, Conversation and Democracy to Come

Author(s): Brian Opie
Subject(s): Education, Political Theory, Government/Political systems, State/Government and Education
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: education; democracy; state; neoliberalism; Michael Peters;
Summary/Abstract: For more than two decades, Michael Peters has been engaged in a wide ranging critique of the neoliberal settlement in education, society and government. His writings, and the classes, seminars, conferences and collaborations in which they have been discussed and elaborated, have created and sustained networks of people working to build a new consensus about the purposes of education and knowledge creation in democratic societies. This paper is intended as a contribution to that new consensus and a grateful acknowledgment of Michael’s energy of thought and conversation. It will argue that both 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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