What is education, what is it for and what are its fundamental values? How do we understand knowledge and learning? What is our image of the child and the schoo

The Education of Radical Democracy explores why radical democracy is so necessary, difficult, and possible and why it is important to understand it as an educat

The first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s.

Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that "the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe," unwittingly casting democracy as the poli

C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means