ABSTRACT
Impartialists would deal quite differently with cases that amount to conflicts of desire over what to teach about the past. Impartialists certainly would be opposed to any strategy that involved overthrowing macro-democracy in order to establish micro-democracy in schools or anywhere else. The interesting educational question on micro-democracy for impartialists, however, is whether impartialism of its very nature requires them to push for micro-democracy in schools. The chapter discusses what some writers have seen as the educational implications of the kind of 'Critical Theory' advocated by Jurgen Habermas. If the parliament has decided that the control of school administration lies with the Minister of Education and he or she has decided that the ultimate authority in each school is the principal, then this is a macro-democratic decision that liberals must respect until they can persuade the parliament or the Minister of Education differently.
