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STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND EDUCATION
Volume 36, Issue 6, Pages 601-613Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11217-017-9564-5
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Populism; Democratic education; The public; Demands; Affect; Antagonism
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- LUN (The Board of Teacher Education) at Orebro University
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This paper seeks to bring John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy of democratic education and the public into dialogue with Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism. Recognizing populism as an integral aspect of democracy, rather than as its antithesis, the purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical account of populism as being of educational relevance in two respects. First, it argues that the populist logic specifies a set of formal elements by which democratic education could operate as a collective enterprise. Second, it asserts that the notion of populism supplements any congenial understanding of democratic education by bringing political demands, conflicts and affects to the fore. Finally, the paper discusses the risks and possibilities inherent in visualizing populism as an educational modus.
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