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Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism And The Erosion Of Democratic Education, Robert Karaba
Challenging Freedom: Neoliberalism And The Erosion Of Democratic Education, Robert Karaba
Democracy and Education
Goodlad, et al. (2002) rightly point out that a culture can either resist or support change. Schein’s (2010) model of culture indicates observable behaviors of a culture can be explained by exposing underlying shared values and basic assumptions that give meaning to the performance. Yet culture is many-faceted and complex. So Schein advised a clinical approach to cultural analysis that calls for identifying a problem in order to focus the analysis on relevant values and assumptions.
This project starts with two assumptions: (1) The erosion of democratic education is a visible overt behavior of the current U.S. macro-culture, and (2) …