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    Signifiers of Bildung, the Curriculum and the Democratisation of Public Education
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 43 (1): 91-106. 2023.
    This article argues that curriculum work can benefit from signifiers of Bildung to promote democracy in public education. The argument is built on the premise that cultural and intellectual traditions that value Bildung presume a link between the inner cultivation of the individual and the development of better societies (Horlacher 2017). I start by presenting Mouffe’s (2000) democratic paradox and how pluralism is the defining feature of liberal democracies. Based on how curriculum work is a st…Read more