On Collapse and the Next U.S. Democracy: Elements of Applied Systemic Research

Autor: Greg Tanaka
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 46:319-338
ISSN: 0161-7761
Popis: While concern has been growing in recent years about the structural precursors to economic collapse in the United States, and a parallel decline in democracy, few have asked: (1) what moral and cultural foundations might be necessary as building blocks to launch a democratic renewal and (2) whether a different and “deep” democracy might be constructed this time that accords everyday citizens the agency they will need to initiate policy at the national level. The article introduces a research methodology to frame and assess change at this macro, or systemic, register and examines the role that education can play in teaching citizens how to exercise agency in a reconstituted democracy that is more nearly “by, for, and of the people.”
Databáze: OpenAIRE