This symposium shares ways to analyze, discuss, and enact democratic education in today’s world.

• What can be done in general, and within education, about threats of nuclear annihilation, global terrorism, climate disruption, biodiversity loss, pandemics, racism, xenophobia, extreme income inequality, destructive technologies, not to mention their intersections?
• Can intelligence compete with oligarchical, political, ecclesiastic, or economic power, habit, custom, and tradition (cf. Dewey, “Intelligence and Power”)?
• How should our philosophies of education, the profession of teaching, informal learning, and the relationship of school and society be understood and reconstructed for these times?
• How can teachers respond?
• How can international perspectives enlarge our thinking on democratic education?