The Learning Worker, Organizations and Democracy

  • Catherine Casey
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Part of the The Knowledge Economy and Education book series (KNOW, volume 4)

Abstract

The modern cultural aspiration toward participatory democratic citizenship continues to be highly valued and striven for in the contemporary West. Although there is much recognition of democracy’s many imperfections and everyday political practices that fall well short of democratic ideals, many social and political theorists argue for the continued applicability of models of democratic civil society to our present times (Archibugi et al., 1998; Held, 1993; Touraine, 1997). They argue that a revision and revitalization of democratic ideas and practices enables a crucial response to contemporary counter-modern and counterdemocratic forces, such as fundamentalisms and authoritarian regimes, and their powerful effects.

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Human Resource Civil Society Organizational Learning Lifelong Learning Organizational Design 
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