Radical Democracy and Our Future: A Call to Action. The Dialectics of Liberty.

Gatto, John Taylor

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ERIC Number: EJ557359

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Publication Date: 1997

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Radical Democracy and Our Future: A Call to Action. The Dialectics of Liberty.

Gatto, John Taylor

SKOLE: The Journal of Alternative Education, v14 n4 p40-61 Fall 1997

A historical review of antidemocratic social thinking since 1885 and its educational consequences: compulsory education managed by a central bureaucracy rather than by individuals in local communities, and a gradual "narrowing" of the definition of democracy through state-regulated mind control by schools. (SAS)

Descriptors: Anti Intellectualism, Centralization, Compulsory Education, Democracy, Elementary Secondary Education, Elitism, Government School Relationship, Social History, Sociocultural Patterns

Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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