Education is never neutral. It is never neutral because our philosophers, from Jefferson to Dewey to Giroux, have always connected it to our ability to perpetuate and participate in a democratic society. Our pedagogies, therefore - or how we go about educating - are necessarily embedded with ideologies that are attached to our definitions of participation and our capacity to participate in that society. The value or meaning of participation coupled with our ability to participate is what determines, in any given era, notions of literacy.
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