This paper is a republication of an interview between Tina Kullenberg and Ana Marjanovic-Shane, published in the EARLI SIG 25 Interview Series: ”The role theory philosophy Educational Science” (Kullenberg & 2020)[2]. In interview, authors discuss reasons democratic schools sometimes support but other times do not or even limit dialogic pedagogy. conducted by Kullenberg, Marjanovic-Shane mak...

Abstract In this chapter, I show how John Dewey’s understanding of the educational meaning existential uncertainty lies at heart his idea democratic education. Specifically, argue that theory education is grounded in a concept transformative learning necessarily involves experiences uncertainty, and, teaching supporting learners’ opportunities to have educative uncertainty. doing so, aim bring ...

This article deals with the question of what has happened to ‘the public’ in Swedish education system during last three decades. In our search for an answer we illuminate and discuss how process marketisation, together learnification individualisation education, replaced from public logic market place. To shed some further light on current discourse contrast two principles teaching, aristocrati...

Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a unique panel dataset on foreign students starting from 1950, I show that foreigneducated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in democ...

This article examines the reforms in education that have been occurring in Indonesia following the socio-political change marked by the fall of the Soeharto regime. Democratic citizens are now desired explicitly in the 2003 Education Act. As the decentralisation policy in governance has been implemented, autonomy in education has resulted in several consequent reforms. School Based Management h...

The correlation between ICT-supported education system and economic development of a developing country has been documented by several studies (Anderson, 2009; Selwood et al, 2003; and Unwin, 2009). Today’s Information and Communications Technology can significantly and positively impact the educational and economic landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This paper investigates ho...

Conflict is a dynamic and complex concept which takes a crucial part in students’ learning experiences, especially in learning communities underpinned with democratic pedagogy. Democratic pedagogies provide a base for emancipatory education by enabling students to participate in governance of their learning processes and so take responsibility for their own learning. In VLCs underpinned with de...