Radical Democracy and Our Future: A Call to Action. The Dialectics of Liberty.

Gatto, John Taylor

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ERIC Number: EJ522027

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Radical Democracy and Our Future: A Call to Action. The Dialectics of Liberty.

Gatto, John Taylor

Journal of Family Life, v2 n1 p40-48 Fall 1995

Examines the relationship between centralization and public education. Suggests that compulsory schooling is key to the increasingly centralized and "managed" nature of society and that the nationalization of schooling has undermined individual rights to liberty and democracy. Advocates that communities be responsible for their children and for what they learn by taking children back from government managers. (LP)

Descriptors: Centralization, Community Control, Compulsory Education, Democracy, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom, Government Role, Hidden Curriculum, Politics of Education, Public Education, Small Schools, Social Change, Social Control

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Note: Journal availability: Down-to-Earth Books, 72 Philip St., Albany, NY 12202. Theme issue title: "Culture." Keynote address at the Pitkin Conference (Plainfield, VT, July 15, 1995).