Description:Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill provides a lucid and critical guide shedding light on the continuing relevance of earlier thinkers to the debates between populists and liberals about the nature of education in democratic societies. The book discusses the relationship Rousseau and Plato posited between education and society, and contrasts their work with the development of liberal thinking about education from John Locke, and John Stuart Mill's arguments for a the importance of education to representative democracy. It explores some of the roots of populism and offer a broader perspective from which to assess the questions which populists pose and the answers which liberals offer. The book makes a substantial contribution to the current debate about democracy, by emphasising the central importance of education to political thought and practice, and suggests that only an education system based on liberal democratic principles can offer the possibility of a genuinely free society.This book is ideal reading for researchers and post graduate students in education, politics, philosophy and history. It will also be of great interest to Educational practitioners and policy makers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics). To get started finding Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics)
Description: Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill provides a lucid and critical guide shedding light on the continuing relevance of earlier thinkers to the debates between populists and liberals about the nature of education in democratic societies. The book discusses the relationship Rousseau and Plato posited between education and society, and contrasts their work with the development of liberal thinking about education from John Locke, and John Stuart Mill's arguments for a the importance of education to representative democracy. It explores some of the roots of populism and offer a broader perspective from which to assess the questions which populists pose and the answers which liberals offer. The book makes a substantial contribution to the current debate about democracy, by emphasising the central importance of education to political thought and practice, and suggests that only an education system based on liberal democratic principles can offer the possibility of a genuinely free society.This book is ideal reading for researchers and post graduate students in education, politics, philosophy and history. It will also be of great interest to Educational practitioners and policy makers.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics). To get started finding Education, Liberal Democracy and Populism: Arguments from Plato, Locke, Rousseau and Mill (Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.