Citizenship Development and the Market's Impact: Examining Democratic Learning in Charter Schools in Two Regions

Autor/inn/en	Hernández, Laura E.; Castillo, Elise
Titel	Citizenship Development and the Market's Impact: Examining Democratic Learning in Charter Schools in Two Regions
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 36 (2022) 2, S.440-475 (36 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hernández, Laura E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904820901482
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Educational Practices; Citizenship Education; Civics; Commercialization; Democracy; Labor Market; Neoliberalism; Educational Change; Regional Characteristics; Differences; Ethnography; California; New York + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Bildungspraxis; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Staatsbürgerkunde; Demokratie; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsreform; Regionaler Faktor; Unterscheiden; Ethnografie; Kalifornien
Abstract	The marketization of U.S. schools has increasingly complicated and even undermined the democratic aims of education, causing many to argue that democratic and market ideologies are fundamentally opposed. This meta-ethnographic study uses conceptual tools from democratic theory and the research on civic education to investigate how leaders in one market-based organization--charter schools--grapple with tensions between the market and democracy in fostering the democratic orientations of their students and parents. Findings reveal that charter leaders primarily facilitate democratic learning opportunities that advance their organizational interests and promote a narrow and more individualistic conceptualization of democracy at the expense of a communitarian, justice-oriented one. The bounded vision of democracy observed in charter school practices suggests that market pressures may drive charters to focus their democratic engagement on the instrumental aims of ensuring their organizational survival in a competitive educational marketplace, despite espoused commitments to broader democratic aims. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01