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Why indeed do we have schools? This perennial question has taken on new urgency in our era. As has been widely shown in the scholarly literature, governments the world over have been using educational policy to render schools ever more tightly into instruments of economic, nationalistic, and often xenophobic competitiveness.
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Hansen, D.T., Davis, J. (2016). A Philosophical School for Our Time. In: Siljander, P., Kontio, K., Pikkarainen, E. (eds) Schools in Transition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-827-3_2
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