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Democratic Socialism and Education: New Perspectives on Policy and Practice

Part of the SpringerBriefs in Education Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-18937-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-18936-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 10, 2019

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Chapter 1Contemporary Education and Education Systems

Hopkins, Neil

Pages: 1 –8

[In this chapter, the prevailing trends in state education systems will be discussed. It will be argued that the neoliberal turn in education has emphasised choice (for parents and students) that encourages a consumerist view of state education. Competition between educational institutions...
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Chapter 2Contemporary Democratic Socialism in a Complex Political World

Hopkins, Neil

Pages: 9 –17

[This chapter discusses the work of Noberto Bobbio, Chantal Mouffe and Axel Honneth (the ideas associated with them will run throughout succeeding chapters). These thinkers epitomise contemporary democratic socialist thinking by challenging ideas within the socialist tradition that have tended to...
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Chapter 3Towards a Democratic Socialist Curriculum

Hopkins, Neil

Pages: 19 –31

[It is argued that the curriculum is one of the most politicised aspects of contemporary state education and has come under increasingly centralised control in many educational systems. This chapter presents the need for an element of local stakeholder control of the curriculum to foster greater...
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Chapter 4In Search of a Democratic Socialist Pedagogy

Hopkins, Neil

Pages: 33 –39

[How the curriculum is taught is as important as what goes into it. In this chapter, the social and collaborative aspects of learning are re-visited in relation to pedagogy. Using the work of Robin Alexander in particular, it will be argued that dialogic learning has a close affinity with...
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Chapter 5Democratic Socialism and Governance in Education

Hopkins, Neil

Pages: 41 –47

[The issue of governance is the final educational issue addressed in the book. This chapter states that citizenship education can be extended to provide a ‘whole organisational approach’ to ensure that citizenship extends to forms of democratic decision making and accountability within...

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