Are we living the end of democracy? A defence of the ‘free’ time of the university and school in an era of authoritarian capitalism

Autores/as

  • Carl Anders Säfström Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/centre-public-education-and-pedagogy), Maynooth University, Ireland http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1517-9819

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.dossie.1

Resumen

In this article I address education beyond individualism, elitism and instrumentalism and instead understand education as central for a democratic way of life. I discuss the role of education in the making of democratic forms of life in the university, in the school as well as in other contexts outside institutions. I argue for the importance of defending the “free time” of the university and school against a “time of production” as a defining characteristic of university and school. I will show how a time of production undermine the very possibility of education, and which therefore also tends to negate pluralist democracy.

  

Biografía del autor/a

Carl Anders Säfström, Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy (https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/centre-public-education-and-pedagogy), Maynooth University, Ireland

  

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2020-04-15

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Säfström, C. A. (2020). Are we living the end of democracy? A defence of the ‘free’ time of the university and school in an era of authoritarian capitalism. CONJECTURA: Filosofia E educação, 25, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.dossie.1