Democratic Schools for a More Democratic Society
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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-73782024000200011Keywords:
Democracy, Democratic schools, Democratic curriculum, School governanceAbstract
Just two years ago, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chile's Michelle Bachelet (2022), alerted us to the fragile state of democracy around the world. She pointed out that the level of democracy in 2021 had fallen back to levels of three decades ago, which implies that some of the most important democratic achievements have been lost. No region of the world escapes this decline, but it singled out Latin America and the Caribbean as one of the regions that has suffered - and is suffering - the most attacks on democracy and its institutions. Two years on, we feel that we are perhaps even worse off.
We are, then, approaching an abyss in which, in all likelihood, it will be the most vulnerable groups that will suffer the worst consequences. Without democracy, it is always the weakest who lose: ‘traditionally marginalised individuals and groups will be further marginalised’, the High Commissioner told us.
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