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Direct linkLaw, Alex – LATISS: Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences, 2007
In this paper, I examine the problem of common-sense democracy, understood here as a habitus of equal participation in social and political dialogue, through the teaching of sociology to non-traditional students at a Scottish post-1992 university. For the eighteenth century Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid, common sense was intrinsically…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Democracy, Student Participation, Foreign Countries
