Are we living the end of democracy?: A defence of the ‘free’ time of the university and school in an era of authoritarian capitalism

Säfström, Carl Anders ^[1]
1. [1] National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  
  National University of Ireland, Maynooth
  
  Irlanda
Localización: Conjectura: filosofia e educação, ISSN 0103-1457, Nº. Extra 1, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Dossiê: Filosofia da Educação e Pedagogia Crítica: preocupações e tendências atuais), págs. 1-16
Idioma: inglés
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- Estamos vivendo o fim da democracia?: uma defesa do tempo “livre” da universidade e da escola em uma era de capitalismo autoritário
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- In this article I address education beyond individualism, elitism and instrumentalism and instead understand education as central for a democratic way of life. I discuss the role of education in the making of democratic forms of life in the university, in the school as well as in other contexts outside institutions. I argue for the importance of defending the “free time” of the university and school against a “time of production” as a defining characteristic of university and school. I will show how a time of production undermine the very possibility of education, and which therefore also tends to negate pluralist democracy.