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Legitimacy, Democratic

open access: yes, 2015
Legitimacy is the moralization of authority. Democratic legitimacy specifies that what makes the exercise of authority moral is that its source is “the people” in some sense; its procedures are democratic ones; and its outcomes clearly relate to the ...
John Parkinson, Parkinson, John
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping legitimacy discourses in democratic nation states: Great Britain, Switzerland, and the Unites States compared [PDF]

open access: yes
This working paper first outlines the contours of a discourse analytical approach to the study of legitimation processes and then presents findings from a quantitative analysis of legitimacy-related communication in selected print media of the United ...
Hurrelmann, Achim   +2 more
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Relational and feminist pedagogic approaches for developing engagement and inclusion of girls at risk of exclusion in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper highlights the inclusive potential of relational and feminist pedagogic strategies in education, focusing on girls at risk of exclusion. Girls in England are less likely than boys to be suspended or permanently excluded from school, but numbers are increasing.
Juliette Wilson‐Thomas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE IN DEMOCRATIC CONTEXTS [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Education Research Review
This paper critically examines the contested relationship between scientific authority and democratic legitimacy-two foundational pillars of contemporary governance whose normative underpinnings and institutional logics often stand in tension.
Patrick AGYARE
doaj   +1 more source

Vulnerable minorities and democratic legitimacy in refugee admission

open access: yesEthics & Global Politics, 2020
In this paper I defend the view that the democratic legitimacy of refugee admission policies requires the democratic inclusion of asylum seekers. I argue that this includes not only granting them formal participation rights, but also ensuring that they ...
Zsolt Kapelner
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiated Rulemaking for U.S. Higher Education Regulatory Policy: A Process of Deliberative Democracy?

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019
The rulemaking process through which higher education regulatory policy is created in the U.S. Department of Education has received critical attention in recent years.
Rebecca Natow
doaj   +2 more sources

The Problem of Legitimacy in the European Polity. Is Democratization the Answer? [PDF]

open access: yes
The authors discuss potential sources of legitimacy of the EU, i. e. of the normative bindingness of its decisions. After rejecting the views that such legitimacy is either not needed, not feasible, or provided for already, they focus upon the corrosive ...
Claus Offe, Ulrich K. Preuss
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Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

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