New Perspectives on Education for Democracy brings together diverse communities of education research in an innovative way to develop a nuanced understanding of the relationship between education and democracy.

PART I-New ways of thinking about democracy 1. On the need for a new democracy of education in a post-pandemic world 2. Democracy in decline? Developing democratic re-orientations through plurality and deliberation 3. This is what isonomy looks like! 4. Re-imagining aspirations: A new transition planning framework supporting inclusive and democratic actions in schools PART II-Enacting democracy through teaching and learning 5. Country as teacher: Using stories from and for Country in Australian education for social and ecological renewal 6. The ordinary everyday: Centring the embodied practice of classroom teaching 7. Encountering a pedagogy of the world in a university setting 8. Students' experiences of overt data-talk in the classroom: "It's all just this stupid system" 9. Teacher workload in Australia: National reports of intensification and its threats to democracy 10. Education for democracy: Culturally responsive practices and curriculum in teacher education 11. Critical affective literacy, feminist pedagogies, and democracy: Exploring possibilities for the high school English classroom PART III-Future thinking for a new era of democracy 12. Combating crisis and despair: Voice, choice, and agency for active, resilient citizenship 13. The certainty of nationalism in uncertain times: Disrupting the national givens of citizenship education 14. Passion as politics: An analysis of Australian newspaper reporting of institutional responses to the School Strikes for Climate 15. Relational pedagogy and democratic education