REACTIVATING DEMOCRACY, AN ETHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE: URGENT REFLECTIONS BASED ON THE WORK OF JOHN DEWEY

This article proposes a rereading of John Dewey with the intention of analyzing and proposing some solutions to the current crisis of representative or liberal democracy. This crisis is related to contradictory globalizing processes that, on the one hand, nourish a futuristic utopia entrusted to technological progress, and on the other, regresses to the nostalgic, emotional and tribal. This rereading focuses on some foundational works of Dewey, but especially on Democracy and Education and other educational texts. The article develops a series of arguments that revolve around the idea of << creative democracy >>, which Dewey developed in his maturity, as a valuable reference for a desirable reactivation of democracy, understood as an ethical ideal.