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In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society. [3] In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form. [4]
In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the new-born members of the group (its future sole representatives) and the maturity of the ...
Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 is the first full biography of Alexander Meiklejohn written by Adam R. Nelson and published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001. The title is not a complete biography but draws from five archives to show Meiklejohn through his own words.
One study finds "that increases in levels of education improve levels of democracy and that the democratizing effect of education is more intense in poor countries". [142] It is commonly claimed that democracy and democratization were important drivers of the expansion of primary education around the world.
The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students is a 1987 book by the philosopher Allan Bloom, in which the author criticizes the openness of relativism, in academia and society in general, as leading paradoxically to the great closing referenced in the book's title.
The democratization of AI, including through open-source platforms, has major benefits. When anyone can experiment with the technology, it enables entrepreneurship and innovation and prevents ...
The book contains seven essays about the relationship between democracy and the institutions it relies on. Bobbio examined what he called the "six broken promises of democracy". [ 3 ] These concern the respect for the individual's sovereignty, the conflict between political representation and particular interests, oligarchy , self-governance ...
How Democracies Die is a 2018 comparative politics book by the Harvard University political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about democratic backsliding and how elected leaders can gradually subvert the democratic process to increase their power.