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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.
Summary
Comprising over thirty original contributions written by leading experts in the field, this handbook offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the key ideas, issues, and thinkers within democratic education. Its breadth and depth will appeal to both researchers and practitioners in education and politics.
