Teaching and Learning for Democratic Empowerment: A Critical Evaluation.

Brosio, Richard A.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Teaching and Learning for Democratic Empowerment: A Critical Evaluation.

Brosio, Richard A.

Educational Theory, v40 n1 p69-81 Win 1990

Some important theoretical work done in the field of education/schooling has come close to losing touch with the hard facts of lived experience. Educational theorists must resist making untenable motivational claims for the power of teachers and students which ignore the massively greater power of capital and its allies. (IAH)

Descriptors: Capitalism, Change Agents, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Empowerment, Marxian Analysis, Politics of Education, Social Change, Teacher Motivation, Theory Practice Relationship

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