ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes that learning grows out of motivation which depends on recognising and valuing the distinctive qualities of each and the cultural traditions they embody. Understanding the interdependence of learning and living leads to a conclusion that it is the function of governance to constitute the structures of mutual recognition within localities. The significance of democracy for education has grown in recent years because teachers and educators, always asking themselves what they should be educating young people for, grasp that a more complex, diverse world will require a new generation to be able to express its voice while learning to value and deliberate the many differences it will encounter. The purposes of education will need to re-imagine learners as prospective citizens, as cooperative makers of democratic communities in which they are to live and work. Citizens learn to become collaborative subjects by participating in spaces of plurality and difference to remake their communities.
