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The Dying of the Light: The Cause to Illuminate in this State of Fragile Democracy

The Dying of the Light: The Cause to Illuminate in this State of Fragile Democracy

Westry Whitaker
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781522521013|ISBN10: 1522521011|EISBN13: 9781522521020
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch005
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Whitaker, Westry. "The Dying of the Light: The Cause to Illuminate in this State of Fragile Democracy." Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age, edited by Douglas Loveless, et al., IGI Global, 2017, pp. 85-102. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch005

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Whitaker, W. (2017). The Dying of the Light: The Cause to Illuminate in this State of Fragile Democracy. In D. Loveless, P. Sullivan, K. Dredger, & J. Burns (Eds.), Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age (pp. 85-102). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch005

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Whitaker, Westry. "The Dying of the Light: The Cause to Illuminate in this State of Fragile Democracy." In Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age, edited by Douglas Loveless, et al., 85-102. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2101-3.ch005

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Abstract

These are dangerous times (Giroux, 2010, 2015). In this chapter, the author illuminates and explores the founders' complex and often contradictory perspectives on public education and democracy itself and their relevance to technologically-mediated educational discourses. This chapter demonstrates the importance of re-politicizing and historicizing public education with particular emphasis on defending public schools, public school teachers and the very concept of public education as a site of democratic solidarity. The author approaches this topic with attention to the corporatized war on education waged by wayward conservatives and centrist democrats. The author explores these battle lines while juxtaposing their stance and value for public education with that of the nation's founders. The author expands upon this contrast by drawing critical awareness to the social, political, and cultural implications of information technology and the use of digital spaces to project our voices and faces loudly and vividly into the bedrooms of people never met.

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