This book offers description and analysis of philosophies that can provide scaffolding and
justification for the construction of critical democratic educational theory and practice.
The reader is presented with a broad historical treatment of ideas in their social political
economic and educational contexts moreover the perennial quest for certainty is contrasted
with those who have decided it has always been an unhappy unsuccessful and dangerous quest.
Richard A. Brosio argues that the scaffolding and building materials for the construction of
critical democratic education are best provided by those thinkers who recognize
epistemological uncertainty as well as the need for a broadly inclusive human attempt to make
sense of our experiences education and world. The cast of characters includes classical
Greeks Marx Dewey existentialists liberationists Freire politics of identity thinkers
and postmodernists - along with a touch of green.
