Tv\u00e5 forskare vid Helsingfors universitet, universitetslektor Pia Mikander samt fil.dr. Henri Satokangas, har publicerat studien ”Addressing Democracy and Its Threats in Education”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Som teoretisk grund anv\u00e4nder Mikander och Satokangas de konstruktioner ang\u00e5ende demokrati som framf\u00f6rs i verket ”Hatade demokrati: De inkluderande r\u00f6relsernas ideologi och historia” (Henrik Arnstad, 2018). Mikander och Satokangas skriver:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nA key idea is the need to consider democracy as more than a form of government: as a political ideology with the inclusion of more and more people with their different experiences and perspectives into the core of decision-making (see Arnstad 2018). As Young (2000) points out, we cannot call decision-making democratic unless those affected by decisions have been included in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arnstad\u2019s (2018) idea that democracy has pluralism or an ever-increasing inclusion of voices from the margins as its goal is pedagogically visible through its opposite. While the traditional concept standing in opposition to democracy is that of dictatorship, Arnstad contrasts democracy with fascism, since fascist ideology is necessarily anti-pluralist, aiming continuously to narrow the influence of different voices in decision-making processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arnstad\u2019s point becomes relevant as we move forward towards the educational implications of placing pluralism at the core of democracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n