This timely volume explores the present-day implications of the traditional American belief in public education as a vehicle for extending democratic politics.

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Popular education, a distinctive Swedish tradition of lifelong learning, has always concerned itself with the relationship between learning, power, and democrac

"Twenty-eight eminent essayists remind our nations parents, educators, school board members and politicians that our democracy is in jeopardy and that our natio