Democracy, Hegemony, and Totalitarianism: An Educational Study

• In Event: Roundtable Session 27

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium presents scholarship on the ways that democracy, hegemony, and totalitarianism play out in different educational contexts. A contextually diverse proposal, each presenter asks questions and provokes conversation on the meaning(s) of democratic and totalitarian education in an age of constraints: Presenter 1 provides an analysis of totalitarian capitalism and education; presenter 2 employs interviews of Cypriot students and freedom fighters to investigate how individuality and enmassification present themselves in the contemporary democratic project; presenter 3 investigates how cultural conglomerates influence teaching and learning in adult education; presenter 4 explores potential pedagogical practices that upend traditional approaches to democratic education; presenter 5 conducts (auto)biographical research of the neoliberal hegemony that influences student success/failure in an alternative school in Quebec.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Hannah Marie Spector, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

Papers

• Totalitarian Capitalism? A Novel Form of Education - Hannah Marie Spector, Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

• Democracy: From an Abstract Idea to an Everyday Educational Practice - Nicoletta Christodoulou, Frederick University

• Unmasking Hegemony and Learning Democracy: Mass Media, Adult Education, and the Challenge of Teaching for Justice in the Age of Culture Conglomerates - Robin Redmon Wright, The Pennsylvania State University - Harrisburg

• Resisting Capitalist Education: Insurrectionist Pedagogies and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship - E. Wayne Ross, The University of British Columbia

• An Outreach School: An Entry Point Into (Counter)Hegemonic Social Practices, Forms, and Structures - Rodney Handelsman, McGill University