PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Willinsky, John
TI  - Democracy and Education: The Missing Link May Be Ours
AID  - 10.17763/haer.72.3.0nj018h638677r24
DP  - 2002 Sep 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - 367--392
VI  - 72
IP  - 3
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/72/3/367.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/72/3/367.full
SO  - herp2002 Sep 01; 72
AB  - In this article, John Willinsky calls on educational researchers to consider participating in scholarly publishing experiments that leverage information technologies. Willinsky argues that publishing systems that provide greater public access to educational research are likely to help us to better understand and extend Dewey's democratic theory of education while promoting a more deliberative democratic state. Through this appeal, researchers can expand education's role within democracy by increasing the impact educational research has on practice and by providing an alternative perspective to the media's coverage of educational issues. The author challenges researchers to participate in this democratic experiment by thinking of their work as a way to expand global opportunities for edification and deliberation within the public sphere of this information economy.