Howard Zinn on Democratic Education — Who Decides What Schools Teach?
What happens when schools teach democratic ideals but do not give students enough tools to test institutions against those ideals?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Howard Zinn on Democratic Education by Howard Zinn with Donaldo Macedo as our lens, this Deep Dive investigates how education helps construct the historical and political frameworks through which people understand society.
Zinn and Macedo argue that schools often present ideals such as democracy, liberty, and equality while giving far less attention to the historical conflicts…
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