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The powerful still do not favour the cultivation among the lower orders of the skepticism and critical intelligence that is valued among their betters…The decline in investment and support for public education in this country at the moment is… a vindictive rather than a prudent economy. At stake is more than a hundred years of adventure beyond the mere basics, a span in which schools … have tried to make people independent thinkers capable of participation in the democratic process and of deciding what the future of their own society shall be like… We must now find ways of ensuring that a defensive, and more apprehensive, establishment in the context of a contracting economy does not make a critical education an education reserved for privilege. (Stenhouse, quoted in Plaskow, 1985)
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These themes are discussed further in Carr and Hartnett (1996), Education and the Struggle for Democracy (Buckingham: Open University Press).
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Carr, W., Hartnett, A. (1996). Civic Education, Democracy and the English Political Tradition. In: Demaine, J., Entwistle, H. (eds) Beyond Communitarianism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25207-7_5
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