Can Education Be Democratic?: Changing the Pedagogical Paradigm


Anat Vovnoboy>>Wed Jun 3, 2009

The Internet has made knowledge freer than ever before, empowering anyone with access to it to circumvent the traditional educator’s monopolistic middleman role as a pedagogical purveyor. But when educators no longer appear to be unique or necessary, justifying their authority over students grows more tenuous. Our conventional pedagogical methodology has failed to evolve along with technology’s liberation of information and the spread of democracy and humanism. Shouldn’t students being educated for a high-tech, democratic world have the right to determine the course of their own educations?