Tag: democratic culture

  Schooling systems have long been central to maintaining and building healthy democratic cultures. Schools are significant sites where children from diverse ethnic and social groups learn to interact, adopt civic identities, and acquire intercultural skills that are essential to good citizenship. These attitudes and skills contribute to social cohesion, an essential element for healthy

Scholars of education often fail to take account of the deterministic power that capitalism has on modern life.  Capitalism runs much deeper than merely being a guiding principle for economic practice.  As an economic system capitalism determines what counts as success in most modern societies.  Scholars and advocates of education often seem to forget about