Education, Democracy and Social Justice

Abstract

Up to the analysis of Social Justice concept, this article underpins the significance of having more (and better) democracy based on the necessity to fight against increasing injustice and oppression. However, depending on how democracy is understood is how democratic education is envisaged and, if we move in this direction, we must be clear about what these implicit assumptions are. To this end, the article presents the theories of democracy Jürgen Habermas, Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Rancière, and correspondence with the principles of democratic education of Amy Gutmann, Claudia Ruitenberg and Gert Biesta is established. This is promoting a fair education for Social Justice, critical and essentially democratic.