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Discursive Change and the Empowerment of Children: A Conceptual Analysis
Anne Hill
The space for discourse created in the concept note preceding the International Seminar on Democratic and Secular Education held in December 2008 implicitly acknowledges Cassirer’s (Korg 1979: 7) assertion that
Cognition, language, myth and art; none of them is a mere mirror, simply reflecting the images of inward or outward data; they are not indifferent media, but rather the true sources of light, the pre-requisite of vision, and the wellsprings of all formation …
… they are the image-worlds whose principles and origin are to be sought in an autonomous creation of the spirit. Through them alone, we see what we call ‘reality’, and in them alone we possess ...
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