This article investigates the relation between democracy and education in the context of radical student activism. Drawing upon participant observation and interviews with left-wing student activists in New Zealand in 2012 and 2015, it argues that a one-sided preoccupation with the student activists’ public actions as attempts to unleash disruptive forces of the political risks ignoring the undecidability and profoundly experimental and educative aspects of their activities. By paying attention to the less publicly visible social settings – or ‘free spaces’ – shaped by ideals of flat, horizontal democracy, the article shows how the students continuously mediate their radicality by negotiating and balancing a sense of ‘responsibility to act’ with a sense of ‘responsibility to otherness’. Democratic engagement thereby not only becomes a question of ‘disruptive’ political influence; it also comes to revolve around the continuous creation of spaces for collective self-education and experimentation with the co...

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彻底民主化教育？新的学生运动、平等和参与共同但多元的世界

本文研究激进学生激进主义背景下民主与教育之间的关系。借鉴 2012 年和 2015 年新西兰左翼学生活动家的参与者观察和访谈，它认为对学生活动家的公共行动的片面关注是企图释放政治风险的破坏性力量，而忽视了不确定性和深刻他们活动的实验和教育方面。通过关注由扁平、横向民主的理想塑造的不太公开的社会环境——或“自由空间”，文章展示了学生如何通过谈判和平衡“行动的责任感”与“对他人的责任感”。因此，民主参与不仅成为“破坏性”政治影响的问题；它还围绕着为集体自我教育和合作实验不断创造空间...