Sjur Bergan
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A university should not defend democracy from nowhere (opens the original)
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EUROPE A university should not defend democracy from nowhere Sjur Bergan and John Lawrence Dennis 09 September 2026 Tweet Democracy does not exist in the abstract. Even if not all politics is local, democratic responsibility is always practised somewhere. It is also practised in time. Universities cannot help shape the future if they are not also conscious of the past and if they do not help graduates develop that historical consciousness. Democracy is practised in institutions, communities and
Good basic skills are necessary for democratic education (opens the original)
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GLOBAL Good basic skills are necessary for democratic education Sjur Bergan and John Lawrence Dennis 15 July 2026 Tweet The debate about education is often framed as a choice between basic skills and broader competences, between knowledge and understanding. On one side are those who argue that schools should emphasise reading, writing, numeracy and facts. By this, they often mean the competences required, or at least desired, by the labour market. On the other side are those who argue that educa
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