Education for Citizenship in For-Profit Charter Schools?

Autor/in	Stitzlein, Sarah M.
Titel	Education for Citizenship in For-Profit Charter Schools?
Quelle	In: Journal of Curriculum Studies, 45 (2013) 2, S.251-276 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0272
DOI	10.1080/00220272.2012.713996
Schlagwörter	Citizenship Education; Charter Schools; School Role; Discourse Analysis; Web Sites; Institutional Characteristics; Interviews; Administrator Attitudes; Educational Attitudes; Printed Materials; Donors; Curriculum; Educational Administration; Public Schools; Organizations (Groups) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Diskursanalyse; Web-Design; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	Most Americans and many residents of other democratic countries hold public schools to the social and political goal of preparing children to be good citizens. This goal is being challenged by some new forms of schooling promoted through popular education reform movements, especially in the US. This article reveals potentially insurmountable conflicts between the beliefs and practices of one of those forms of schools, for-profit charter schools, and their public task of educating for citizenship. This study begins by exploring the public nature and purposes of public schools, especially their role in creating particular types of citizens. This understanding of public schooling and good citizenship, then, becomes the theoretical lens for analysing the practices of for-profit charter schools. A critical discourse analysis was conducted of school materials such as websites, curricula, investor relation materials, proposals for new charter schools, and interviews with charter school founders. That analysis was used to indicate aspects of support for and incompatibility with quality citizenship education and to assess the overall likelihood that for-profit schools can educate citizens well. (Contains 32 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10