This article explores the wider critical and creative powers of education to bring about a society where no one person is valued more than another and where each person is celebrated for their differences – this the author calls the ‘society of equals’. It is argued that discourses of equality are not only co-extensive with democracy; they are co-extensive with co-operation and education. The extent to which equalities between people are limited to certain spheres of activity is also the limit to which democracy and co-operation are exercised in the affairs of everyday life. To what extent are democracy and co-operation evidenced in schools, colleges and universities – the supposedly privileged places for the development of people’s powers? In whose interests and for what purposes are those powers to be developed? And how may socially just democratic futures be realised through co-operative forms of education? The critical points at issue in answering these questions will be approached by exploring Dewey’s discussions of education and the democratic public in comparison to Lippmann’s views of the public and the role of elites, alongside the values and practices of the co-operative movement and the idea of the society of equals capable of undermining and replacing neo-liberal forms of schooling.

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迈向平等社会：杜威，利普曼，合作社运动和激进民主破坏了新自由主义形式的教育

本文探讨了教育的更广泛的批判和创造力，以实现一个社会，在这个社会中，每个人都没有比另一个人更有价值，每个人都因其差异而受到赞誉-作者称其为“平等社会”。有人认为，平等话语不仅与民主共同延伸，而且与民主息息相关。他们与合作伙伴和教育部门共同合作。人与人之间的平等仅限于某些活动领域，这也是在日常生活中行使民主与合作的限制。学校在多大程度上证明了民主与合作，高校-所谓的人民权力发展的特权之地？这些权力为了谁的利益和目的是为了发展？通过合作形式的教育如何实现社会公正的民主未来？与利普曼的公众观点和精英角色相比，杜威关于教育和民主公众的讨论，以及合作社运动和观念的价值观和实践，将探讨解决这些问题的关键点。平等社会的能力破坏和取代新自由主义形式的学校教育。