Democratic Decision Making

3 credits · Graduate

This course is the first in three in a series entitled Democratic Decision-Making. Together, the courses examine decision-making through different lenses, beginning with this summer’s exploration of the role of democracy in discussions on public education. Romantic notions tying education and democracy have been around since this nation’s founding. Wealthy and intellectual, the framers of the Constitution envisioned the torch-bearers of their new democracy to be “well-educated men” able to translate the vision set forth by the time’s great thinkers (or at least those who were recognized as such - White, well-to-do men like Thomas Paine and John Locke).