The limits of democracy: When politics (des)educates and education (des)politicizes
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https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2009.133.4958Abstract
The role of the citizen in the political arena in Latin America is one of the topics that more attention has received in the last years. However, the results of these analyses have been inversely proportional to the real political efficacy of the citizens. Under those circumstances the main objective of this paper is to examine the dilemmas of contemporary democracy in Latin America based upon a reflection of interdisciplinary nature that questions the relationship between education and politics and their role in the democratic construction process of this Region. The analysis is supported by authors of political culture and the critical approach in education. The article emphasizes the asymmetry between formal representative democracy and democracy in a social dimension and proposes the concept of inertial democracy as an alternative to understand the democratic paradox of this Region. It signals, therefore, to the significance of an emancipatory education as an instrument of democratic strengthening.
Key words: democracy, education, citizenship, Latin America.Downloads
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