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Looks at the present norms and practices of a new form of democratic education and children's democratic participation, utilizing both theoretical and empirical examination of children's deliberative agency.
How children participate in democracy has shifted toward more communicative, networked, and creative models than before. In political science and political theory, however, surprisingly little is understood about what if anything children can contribute to democracy and how they would do so. Traditionally, children have been considered as mere future citizens who are acknowledged only when they behave in accordance with adults' expectations. In this sense, children are one of the last frontiers of democratic inclusion, as they have long been seen and not heard. Children, Democracy, and Education critically examines and proposes how to counteract such a traditional view on children and retheorizes their position and role within contemporary democracy. Utilizing the empirically grounded concept of deliberative democratic learning, Kei Nishiyama then argues how we enable children's communicative participation and development in classrooms, schools, and social movements to expand the inclusive quality of democracy.
"Children, Democracy, and Education significantly expands the scope of deliberative democracy research by shedding light on children. Through careful examination of previous deliberative democracy research and educational theory, and fieldwork in Japan and Australia, Nishiyama ambitiously revises important concepts and theories in deliberative democracy and, in some cases, proposes new concepts. Children are reconsidered not as future citizens to be educated but as deliberators in the present. Deliberative democracy exists not only within the confines of the state or mini-publics but also within everyday life such as schools and streets. Thus, this book represents a significant challenge to deliberative democracy theories that predominantly focus on adults and the state or government." — Tetsuki Tamura, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Theory
1. Children in Deliberative Democracy
2. Theorizing Deliberative Democratic Learning
Part II. Classroom
3. Reason-Giving in the Classroom
4. Listening in the Classroom
5. Ethics of Facilitation
Part III. Beyond the Classroom
6. The Democratic School as a Mediating Space
7. Deliberative Activism
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Works Cited
Index