Inventing Democracy. Teaching and Togetherness

Abstract

The formal liberal democracy is ideologically false and fundamentally wrong for the type of community to respect and seeking to develop for. In this article four sources to think about: being, democracy and community are presented: the idea of "being-with" Heidegger, the multitude project of Hardt and Negri, Butler's vulnerability, and The planetary paradigm of Dussel and the idea of coexistence of Mignolo. Here we reflect on how the experience of social practice and educational movements can help us to imagine a new and more radical feeling of democracy and community. Finally, suggestions are starting points for thinking about pedagogy and curriculum themselves in a democratic community, instead of seeing the fundamental elements for the same are provided.