The idea of democracy and its relevance to how we educate young people seemed never more pertinent than in that year.įour years before 2016, I became chair of a Steering Group of academics and practitioners who, anticipating the centenary, wished to mark Dewey's seminal educational work with an international conference. Times and events all suggested that the very practice and meaning of democracy was widely under scrutiny. Looking back, one could argue that 2016 also saw peoples across the globe enduring political repression and change, growth in the threat of international terror, a referendum decreeing that the UK should sever membership from the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as president of the US. The year 2016 was remarkable for many reasons, but one significant anniversary for the realm of education was that 2016 marked a hundred years since the influential publication of Democracy and Education by John Dewey ( Citation1916).
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