Diversity And Democracy

Since its founding, Blue Oak has promised to provide outstanding progress education for children with all backgrounds and interests. Blue Oak believes that all students and educators can benefit from diverse communities where children and adults can accept new perspectives and perspectives.

As a member school, Blue Oak accepts the "Good Practice Principles" shared by NAIS. These principles are wisely advised to emphasize personal expression and full participation. "

As a progressive school, the Blue Oak also has a century-long commitment to educating students to actively participate in our democracy. Blue Oak's seven core education and learning principles promote common interests and daily practice efforts to understand the value of different perspectives.

For example, in the lower grades, "social learning" in each grade is a way of allowing children to change from themselves to school, from community to region, from state to country, how they relate to each other and to the community We will ask you to discover what you do. As a senior educator says, this is a well-developed and meaningful way to connect "now" and "now" to "far".

In secondary schools, a "bottom-up" approach to knowledge based on inquiries also promotes students' comprehensive position. For their Blue Oak education, our students became enthusiastic "problem finders" and "solution creator" as they graduated, and they were very concerned about sustainability, justice and truth It was. As philosopher John Dewey put it in "democracy and education", "The best type of education keeps in mind the desirability of achieving this interrelationship and the custom of mutual support Attitude "

Since the importance of mass media, especially TV advertisement and news reporting has been confirmed, we may wonder whether diversity is still important for democracy. As Sunstein emphasizes, diversity promotes democracy by capturing citizens from a broader perspective. Does the mass media play an important role in promoting this interdisciplinary exposure?

In order to realize the diversity of democracy, we must see diversity as a raw material for dialogue, discussion and challenge, not as a means to manage the difference. In order to incorporate diversity into democracy, we do not guarantee that democracy will achieve "correct" answers, but as a collective process to assess these differences. That's right. Is it possible to become an important question that we answered when this trend is more ambiguous than it is open?

If there are two problems defining contemporary political arguments, they are a question of diversity and democracy. Concerns about the impact of diversity, from immigration crisis to extreme Muslimism and multiculturalism, are deeply rooted in Western society. This concern is a major factor in the growth of populist parties, the success of Donald Trump last year and the success of this year's elections such as Geert Wilders and Marin Le Pen. This has led many people to worry about democracy itself, and it is believed that they are revealed by the success of populism. It leads others to believe that the Western society becomes too democratic and the democratic process needs to be constrained to block unpopular opinions and leaders.