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Publics for Public Schools : Legitimacy, Democracy, and Leadership.
"This book articulates a path for a renewed conception of--and commitment to--the public dimensions of schooling. It is an interdisciplinary book of philosophy and politics, written for educational leaders working in or on behalf of public schooling. Publics for Public Schools introduces a fres...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Where Is the Public in Public Schooling?; "Our" Schools: Demos and the Making of Public Schooling ; From Public Schooling Expansion to the Reign of Private Purposes; Whose Schools Are These Schools? This Book's Response and Plan; Chapter 2 The Problem of Legitimacy; Defining Legitimacy; Political Legitimacy for Public Schools; Principle 1: Fair Participation in Shared Governance; Principle 2: Respecting Liberty and Pluralism; Principle 3: Equal Opportunity.
- Principle 4: Political Education for Democratic LifePrinciple 5: Professionalism; Legitimacy Problems in a Diminishing State; Chapter 3 The Publics of Public Schools; Public and Publics: The Bifocal Vision; The Necessity of Politics, but Not Politics-as-Usual; Inadequate Metaphors (or, How Not to Think about Public Life); Civil Society and Publics for Public Schools; The Private Sphere-Both Feeding and Diminishing Public Work; Form and Function of Public Schooling; Gaps between Publics and Public Schooling; Conclusion.
- Chapter 4 Publics: Formed of Problems, Existing in Conflict, Developing in DeliberationPublics Form in the Shared Experiences of Social Problems; Publics Exist in Contestation as well as Ongoing Collaboration; Publics Develop in Deliberation; Achieving Publics in an Agonistic Public Sphere; The Critique of Utopian Irrelevance; Chapter 5 Community Organizing: Creating Publics for School Reform; Community Organizing as a Tool for Achieving Publics for Schools; Habits and Skills of Communication; Habits and Skills of Leadership Development; Habits and Skills of Building Power.
- Habits and Skills of Collaborative CreationConclusion; Chapter 6 Deliberative Democracy and Public Schools; Deliberative Democracy and the Schools; The Theory of Deliberative Democracy; Habits and Skills of Communication; Habits and Skills of Building Power through Deliberative Democracy; Habits and Skills of Leadership Development; Habits and Skills of Collaborative Creation; Deliberative Politics in School Governance; Chapter 7 Public Leadership for Public Schools, with lead author Steven R. Thompson; Leadership Challenges of Our Complex Global Age; Our Addiction to Heroes.
- Our Faulty Assumptions about Organizations and CommunitiesPitfalls on the Road toward Social Intelligence; Public Creation: Leadership Habits and Skills; Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.