Difficult stories are not obstacles to democratic education. Learning how to communicate about them are conditions for it.
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The threat to Canada by Donald Trump should mobilize not just ‘elbows up’ but also ‘heads up’ around the need for co-ordinated, pan-Canadian support for public education.
We ought to worry that the pandemic has made it even easier to reduce teaching to disseminating knowledge.
When ideas are presented as topics to be debated, rather than as facts to be learnt, students and democracy benefit.
Far from proof of a flawed education system, politically active school students are evidence our education system is working well.
Australian higher education policy debates focus primarily on how and by whom universities are funded. This diminishes understanding of universities’ democratic purpose and wider social mission.
Results from the latest report into civics and citizenship education show by the time students hit year ten, the majority of them have little knowledge about Australian civics and democracy.
Imagine a school where the students have equal say with the teachers, principal and governors in all areas of school life. Their say is not limited to being school or house captain, prefect or a member…
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