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Let’s dream about that educational world where every child truly is free to make her/his learning decision and they are well supported, encouraged, and succeed. I am taking John Dewey’s stance to define a democratic curriculum that needs “a continuous reconstruction” (Dewey, 1902, p. 11) to connect the learner’s present experience to all possible new experiences. I believe in that educational world where the creative possibility of each child, no matter from which context the child comes, is in highest level.
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Gautam, C. (2016). (Un)Democratic Curriculum for a Democratic Educational World. In: Lowery, C., Walker, A., Thomas, C. (eds) Un-Democratic Acts. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-723-8_7
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