How democratic is higher education for sustainable development?
We wondered how ‘democracy’ was being used and communicated within the higher education discourse of ‘education for sustainability’, or ‘for sustainable development’ (ES/ESD). We used a philosophical hermeneutic approach to explore the sense or senses in which the concept of democracy is used within...
| Published in: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 755 - 768 |
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