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Radical democratic education: lessons from the past, hopes for the future

How do we “mobilise the past against a reckless present”? By drawing on a rich seam of successful, radical educational visions. Part of openDemocracy's "Left governmentality" mini-series.

Radical democratic education: lessons from the past, hopes for the future
Protest against SAT tests for 6 and 7 year olds, 2016 | Gareth Fuller/PA Images
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m.fielding@ucl.ac.uk

In this companion to Peter Moss’s ‘For an education that sees children as more than ‘human capital’ I too wish to argue for a more richly conceived democratic education in a genuinely inclusive public school and in so doing briefly explore how a creatively conceived left governmentality might nurture practices and sustain orientations that more fully realise those aspirations.