4 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2017
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www.truth-out.org www.truth-out.org
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All the while, these forces are undercutting public faith in the defining institutions of democracy.
This is key, not just dismantling, but destroying faith in public mechanisms.
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In the present moment, it becomes particularly important for educators and concerned citizens all over the world to protect and enlarge the critical formative educational cultures and public spheres that make democracy possible.
public education supporting democracy
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He writes “The commons, briefly put, is about self-organized social systems for managing shared wealth.”
Self-organized yes, but I argue that the right place to locate that self-organization and practice at this historical moment is within public institutions, which are in tension with Bollier's idea of the commons as beyond the State.
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The most important role of a university is to prepare citizens.
Resonates with my #OpenEd17 post on Opening Public Institutions.
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