Humanizing democracy: Matthew Arnold's nineteenth-century call for a common, higher, educative pursuit of happiness and its relevance to twenty-first-century democratic life
Novak B.
2002
American Educational Research Journal
9
10.3102/00028312039003593
Democratic educational reform should promote full-bodied democratic life. To help address the limited vision of humanity prevailing in the current wave of educational reforms - reforms that are being undertaken in the name of democracy while they promote undemocratic and pusillanimous forms of human life - this essay examines a nineteenth-century recommendation for democratic educational reform calling for a broadly accessible liberal education to cultivate a magnanimous and civic-minded democratic populace. This old vision might begin to provide us with a new road map for the reforms being undertaken in our own time, encouraging us to seek - far beyond mechanical measurements of mechanical performances - the standards of cultural, civic, and spiritual enlargement that we must collectively understand and strive toward if we wish to use democratic educational reform to help constitute a bona fide democracy.
Democratic education; Educational reform; Humanities; John Stuart Mill; Matthew Arnold; Thomas Carlyle
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