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Introduction
Democratizing Practice
Why Democracy?
Underlying Assumptions
Preliminary Definitions
Summary
Part One:
Education and Deep Democracy
Chapter One
Challenges to Democracy
The Persistence of Educational Disparity
The Problem of Ideology
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter Two
Reflecting on Democracy
Democracy as Ideology
Education and Democracy
Multiple Conceptions of Democracy
Education as Both Private and Public Good
Democracy: Process and Content
Summary
Education as Social Reproduction or Democratic Opportunity
Democracy Unresolved
Conclusion
Chapter Three
Democracy and Citizenship
Fundamental Human Rights
Historic Rights: An Uneven Playing Field
An Early Inequity: The “Indian Problem”
African Americans: Slavery and Racism
Asian Immigrant Groups
Latinos and Mexican Americans: Foreigners in their Own Lands
Citizenship: A Historic Right?
Citizenship in the Present
Educational Responses
Citizenship and Democracy:
A Temporary Resting Place
Part Two:
Transformative and Courageous
Leadership
Chapter Four
Identifying and Negotiating Democratic Values and
Virtues
Setting the Scene
Human Rights, Democratic Values, and Pluralistic Societies
What about Religious Values?
Virtues and Values as a Basis for Democratic Schools
Concluding Thoughts
Chapter Five
Institutions or Democratic Communities: The Choice
Is Ours
Schools as Institutions
From Institution to Community
Envisaging a Community of Difference
Leadership for Democratic Educational Communities
Leading a Community of Difference
Chapter Six
Teaching and Learning About, in, and for Democracy
Deeply Democratic Practice
Meaningful Learning: Vital Signs or Comatose Forms
Inclusive and Deeply Democratic Education
Concluding Reflections:
The Democratic School
Conclusion
Transformation in and for Democratice Education
The Goal of Transformation
The Need for Moral Courage
Transforming Ourselves
Transforming Consciousness
Transformation through Collective Action
Democratizing Practice at General Eisenhower School
Democratizing Practice: Courageous Leaders Transforming
Schools
References
Courageous Leadership for Transforming Schools:
Democratizing Practice Carolyn M. Shields, Ph.D., The Department of Educational Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Are you concerned with how democracy and politics affect our schools? Would you like to know more
about enacting social justice in education? Courageous Leadership
for Transforming Schools: Democratizing Practice
not only describes what constitutes a truly democratic educational practice
for our schools, but also describes the necessary steps toward achieving
social justice. Combining theoretical approaches
in critical democracy, current data and research, and moving anecdotes,
renowned author Carolyn Shields explains the complex historical legacy
of civil, social, and political inequities in American schools. This
book gives you practical solutions for transforming our democratic society
through reflection, analysis, critique, and action against the discrimination
and exclusion still prevalent in America's schools. 2008 ISBN: 978-1-933760-26-1 Order #: 1070 $39.95 Paperbound 248 pp est. |
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