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Education and democratic theory : finding a place for community participation in public school reform /

Much has been made of the gap between public schools and the communities they serve. This book shows how a group of teachers, parents, and community people in "Ed City" formed an educational reform group-the Project for Educational Democracy-to increase access to decision making in their s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fields, A. Belden
Otros Autores: Feinberg, Walter, 1937-, Roberts, Nicole
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Colección:SUNY series, democracy and education.
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Democracy in small places
  • A failed attempt
  • Engaging in democratic discourse democratically (with Norman Denzin)
  • Race and school in Ed City (with Norman Denzin)
  • The PED's challenge to traditional authority: the school board
  • The meeting of bureaucratic and dialogical authority: the district committee
  • Cooperation and co-optation
  • Conclusion: competing conceptions of democratic education and theory.