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Title: | The ‘Competence’ discourse in education and the struggle or social agency and critical citizenship |
Authors: | Mayo, Peter |
Keywords: | Deliberative democracy Critical literacy Education |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | University of Ankara |
Citation: | Mayo, P. (2009). The ‘Competence’ discourse in education and the struggle or social agency and critical citizenship. International Journal of Educational Policies, 3(2), 5-16 |
Abstract: | This paper argues for an education for critical citizenship closely connected with a revitalisation of the democratic public sphere and which prepares citizens to contribute to the emergence of a ‘substantive democracy’ (Giroux, 2001). An education for citizenship, in this context, is a democratic education, one in which students learn about democracy not simply by talking about it but by engaging in a democratic learning experience governed by non hierarchical social relations of education. This is in keeping with John Dewey’s over-arching concept of education for democracy.The competences involved, for want of a better word, are those that can enable a person to function as a social agent contributing to and thriving within a genuinely democratic environment. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/1459 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacEduES |
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