Humanisation, democracy and trust: The democratisation of the school ethos

Studies in Philosophy and Education 11 (1):11-16 (1991)
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Abstract

A democratic state is characterised by more than its particular principles and institutions; its citizens must have the democratic virtues and attitudes. One such important attitude is trust, as commentators on the current attempts to create democratic institutions in the USSR emphasise. The paper gives an account of social trust and also the important, though problematic, role that distrust plays in a democracy. Finally the paper considers how the school can instantiate social trust in its own ethos.

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What is the content of education in a democratic society?Bonna Devora Haberman - 1994 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 28 (2):183–190.
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After Virtue.A. MacIntyre - 1981 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1):169-171.
Trust and Power.Niklas Luhmann - 1982 - Studies in Soviet Thought 23 (3):266-270.
Ordinary vices.Judith N. Shklar - 1984 - Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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