Globalization

Your point (Jessica) about education makes me think of Dewey and his emphasis on a democratic opportunity for education. If we apply Dewey's prescription to mankind of: education as a "conjoint communicated experience" where "each has to refer his own actions to that of others, and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory" (125). When we think about textbooks that we use and the presence of dominant liberal democratic ideologies imbedded in the content, it's difficult to find objectivity. However, I believe that its not necessarily the objectivity that we are striving for but an equal (ie. democratic) playing field across the discourse that features and embraces different ideologies. And it is this variety that becomes available to professors, students, and academics alike. After all, culture and history is highly context dependent and subjective. Thus, it might be beyond mankind's capability to ever achieve full objectivity. How do you think we can practically go about to make the subjective ideologies in our world more respected and understood?