Framing democracy as response to neoliberalism in Dutch education

Abstract: Purpose: This paper aims to understand the debate about what constitutes good education in the Netherlands. The meaning of the concept of democracy in these public debates is divergent and rather diffuse. If teachers, citizens, advisory councils, and the Dutch government agree that democracy ought to be anchored in future education, we first and foremost need to understand its meaning within these current debates.  Approach: In this study we conducted a frame analysis of eleven key documents from three relevant domains. The diagnostic frame shows that on the whole the authors of these documents view ‘neoliberalism’ and a ‘culture of measurement’ as undermining forces in education.  Findings: The prognostic frame shows that all authors frame democracy as a prognosis, but with four different meanings: 1) democracy as organizational structure, 2) democracy as governmental policy, 2) democracy as knowledge and skill, and 4) democracy as a practice. We argue that these can be interprete.... https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/4028

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Framing democracy as response to neoliberalism in Dutch education ; volume:20 ; number:1 ; day:19 ; month:04 ; year:2021 ; Journal of social science education ; 20, Heft 1 (19.04.2021)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Lozano Parra, Saro ; Bakker, Cok ; Van Liere, Lucien

Further information

• DOI: 10.11576/jsse-4028
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021050519300216402893
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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