Democracy & Education: Collected Perspectives is the first in a series of volumes of collected essays and papers from people around the world on the subject of democracy and education. The series is the project of the John Dewey Center for Democracy and Education based at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The ongoing work represents the critical, reflective, and exploratory efforts of a collection of scholars and thinkers working from a range of disciplinary perspectives to examine the problems and possibilities of achieving universal democracy through education.