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Lobman, Carrie – Democracy & Education, 2011
Public schools historically have been the primary institution responsible for preparing young people for participation in a democratic society. However, the almost exclusive focus by today's schools on knowledge and skills hinders their ability to be environments that support overall development and to produce the kinds of flexible, creative, and…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Democracy, Young Adults, Youth Programs
Reay, Diane – Democracy & Education, 2011
This short paper is a response to Nel Noddings's article on schooling for democracy. Whilst agreeing with the basic premises of Noddings's argument, it questions the possibility of parity between academic and vocational tracks given the inequitable social and educational contexts the two types of learning would have to coexist within. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Schools
Glass, Ronald David; Nygreen, Kysa – Democracy & Education, 2011
We critique the "college for all" discourse by unveiling its relationship to the politics of education, the broader economic and political contexts, and the class and race structures embedded in society and schooling, including higher education. We analyze the current and future labor markets to demonstrate the ways that the "college for all"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Federal Legislation, Democracy, College Attendance
Hytten, Kathy – Democracy & Education, 2011
In this essay, I respond to Carrie Nolan and Sarah M. Stitzlein's article "Meaningful Hope for Teachers in a Time of High Anxiety and Low Morale" and support their argument for meaningful hope grounded in pragmatist philosophy. I agree that while hope is routinely called for in the educational literature, it is often done so in superficial and…
Descriptors: Activism, Teacher Morale, Anxiety, Educational Change
Goldwasser, Matthew – Democracy & Education, 2011
In response to the authors' work on finding a more pragmatic approach to dealing with power, this commentary calls into question the possibility of a preestablished agenda by the researchers, who struggled to engage high school students. There might have been a case of overly ambitious expectations at work; also, the authors confess to being in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Social Action, Pragmatics, Models
Westheimer, Joel – Democracy & Education, 2011
Fehrman and Schutz contend that the fine balance between having students experience real-world obstacles to social change and having them learn how to navigate around those obstacles can be achieved by having adults both pre-select community action projects that are both possible and meaningful to ensure a modicum of success, and jump in and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Action, Social Change, Social Action
Welton, Anjale – Democracy & Education, 2011
This response to ""Buscando la Libertad": Latino Youths in Search of Freedom in School" by Jason G. Irizarry demonstrates how youth participatory action research (YPAR) as an instrument of subverting oppressive school policies and structures is a form of critical policy analysis (CPA). As an evolving method, CPA acknowledges the absent voices in…
Descriptors: Freedom, Action Research, Policy Analysis, Educational Change
Gildin, Bonny – Democracy & Education, 2011
In the context of a conference on after-school programs, sponsored by the nonprofit All Stars Project, youth from the organization's programs discuss their experiences and growth as citizens in a video-captured panel discussion. Their discussion illustrates how outside-of-school social and cultural development helps disenfranchised youth to see…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Democracy, After School Programs, Young Adults
Stemhagen, Kurt – Democracy & Education, 2011
This article describes an empirical project that studied fourth- through- eighth- grade math teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning and about the role of teaching and learning in broader society. Specifically, it examined relationships between teachers' reported beliefs and their use of transmittal, constructivist, and democratic classroom…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Democracy, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Matusov, Eugene – Democracy & Education, 2011
As a sociocultural educator and scholar, I have always been ambivalent about No Child Left Behind's slogan. I like its democratic ideal of "education without failure," but I do not like the current educational policies guided by a neoliberal ideology. This article begins a discussion about what a No Student Left Behind educational practice might…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Politics of Education, Democracy, Educational Practices
Onosko, Joe – Democracy & Education, 2011
President Barack Obama's Race to the Top (RTT) is a profoundly flawed educational reform plan that increases standardization, centralization, and test-based accountability in our nation's schools. Following a brief summary of the interest groups supporting the plan, who is currently participating in this race, why so many states voluntarily…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Centralization, Accountability, Educational Planning
Hanson, Jarrod S.; Howe, Ken – Democracy & Education, 2011
The values of aggregative democracy have dominated much of civic education as its values reflect the realities of the American political system. We argue that deliberative democratic theory better addresses the moral and epistemological demands of democracy when compared to aggregative democracy. It better attends to protecting citizens' autonomy…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship Education, Values, Epistemology
Roxas, Kevin C. – Democracy & Education, 2011
This article critically examines the reality of building community in public schools and specifically identifies the obstacles faced by teachers who try to create community with refugee students. The research in the article focuses on Ms. Patricia Engler, a teacher in a newcomer center for refugee students located in an urban setting. Engler…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Neighborhoods, Class Activities, Learning Activities
Parker, Walter – Democracy & Education, 2011
Walter Parker responds to Hanson and Howe's article, extending their argument to everyday classroom practice. He focuses on a popular learning activity called Structured Academic Controversy (SAC). SAC is pertinent not only to civic learning objectives but also to traditional academic-content objectives. SAC is at once a discourse structure, a…
Descriptors: Democracy, Citizenship, Political Issues, Citizen Participation
Varenne, Herve – Democracy & Education, 2011
Given that I share, mostly, Eugene Matusov's passionate concerns, picking on his vocabulary might appear pedantic. However, the issues involved in labeling political movements and, even more, political practices, can be fundamental and address the very grounds on which social analysis must stand. Briefly, I am concerned with the label…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Democracy, Political Attitudes, Economic Development