Schools should educate for civic governance rather than test scores and expertise

Evidence

The discourse of educated hope and democratic possibilities insists that higher education, along with public schools, play a vital role in developing the political and moral consciousness of its citizens. As such, it is grounded in a notion of educational struggle and leadership that does not begin with the question of raising test scores or educating students to be experts, but with a moral and political vision of what it means to educate to govern, lead a humane life, and address the social welfare of those less fortunate. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2686

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to critical pedagogy traditions (Freire, Giroux) and to the education-for-democracy strand running through Dewey. — connects to: Liberal arts education is the prerequisite for democratic rule itself — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 397; Teacher deskilling under management pedagogies weakens education as a democratic force — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 196