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Beyond Liberal Democracy: Dewey's Renascent Liberalism
- Education and Culture
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, 2006
- pp. 19-30
- 10.1353/eac.2007.0007
- Article
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My project aims to develop a relational, pluralistic political theory that moves us beyond liberal democracy, and to consider how such a theory translates into our public school settings. In this essay I argue that Dewey offers us possibilities for moving beyond one key assumption of classical liberalism, individualism, with his theory of social transaction. I focus my discussion for this paper on Dewey's renascent liberal democracy. I move from a discussion of Dewey's liberal democratic theory to what a relational, pluralistic democratic theory might look like, with Dewey's help.