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SUMMARY:Democracy\, Education and Humility - Dr Kevin Mott-Thornton
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:Recent debates about the imposition of teaching methods and cu
 rriculum content\, the development of free schools and so called ‘trojan
  horse’ radicalisation all highlight the issue of who should control the
  educational encounter between teachers and students in the classroom. Oft
 en these issues are discussed in terms of their social implications\, rati
 onality or educational methodology rather than in terms of political legit
 imacy and they come at a time when many\, on both the left and right\, per
 ceive our society to be in the grip of a crisis of democratic legitimacy. 
 \n\nWhen political philosophers and philosophers of education\, attempt to
  address the political context of educational issues\, the discussion is u
 sually framed in terms of an axiomatic adherence to a deliberative model o
 f democracy which has its origins in the work of John Dewey and Jurgen Hab
 ermas. However\, I will argue that while the maximisation of deliberation 
 between political equals must be central to any adequate model of democrat
 ic legitimacy\, the deliberative model as conceived by Amy Gutmann and oth
 ers\, has serious shortcomings when applied to educational issues. In part
 icular\, I will try to show that other equally fundamental political value
 s like autonomy and pluralism point towards an emergent and associative mo
 del of democracy\, more conducive to authentic deliberation between politi
 cal equals but also dependent on the virtue of stakeholder humility.\n\n*K
 evin Mott-Thornton* was until recently head of Religious Studies at Sydenh
 am High School (GDST). He holds a PhD in philosophy of education from the 
 UCL Institute of Education and is the author of _Common Faith:  Education\
 , Spirituality and the State_ (1997)\, revised and updated and republished
  in paperback in 2014\, as _Common Faith: The Politics of Spiritual Educat
 ion_.  Kevin is currently attempting to write a book on the spiritual and 
 educational implications of capitalism.
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room 2S7
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