Education and Democratic Participation is an important and timely contribution to the emerging debate surrounding the value of educating citizens and communities in order to empower them to participate in democratic change. Responding to the effects of neoliberal ideology on comprehensive education and public services, this book examines the purposes and conditions for reimagining an educated democracy.　

Arguing that social divisions and cultural misrecognition have intensified to the point of crisis, Ranson explains that a just society must create...