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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fields, A. Belden
Other Authors: Feinberg, Walter, 1937-, Roberts, Nicole
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Series:SUNY series, democracy and education.
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
Subjects:
Public schools > United States > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Community and school > United States > Case studies.
Educational change > United States > Citizen participation > Case studies.
Écoles publiques > États-Unis > Participation des citoyens > Études de cas.
Relations école-collectivité > États-Unis > Cas, Études de.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis > Participation des citoyens > Études de cas.
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
Community and school.
Educational change > Citizen participation.
Public schools > Citizen participation.
Bürgerbeteiligung
Schulreform
Öffentliche Schule
Schule
Écoles communautaires > États-Unis > Cas, Études de.
Écoles publiques > Participation des citoyens > États-Unis > Cas, Études de.
Enseignement > Réforme > Participation des citoyens > États-Unis > Cas, Études de.
Ecoles publiques > Etats-Unis.
Relations école-collectivité > Etats-Unis.
United States.
USA
USA.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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