A LEARNING DEMOCRACY FOR COOPERATIVE ACTION

Choice, diversity and equity need to be seen not just as potential pri nciples for secondary schooling or even the governance of education bu t as key organising concepts of the neo-liberal public domain. This pa per win argue that these concepts are, therefore, implicated in the fa ilure of that polity to address the central predicaments of the age. T he resolution of these requires a new vision for the public domain whi ch articulates the values and conditions of a learning democracy expre ssed through civic cooperation, participation and justice.