Dewey's Theory of the Democratic Public and the Public Character of Charter Schools

Autor/in	Waks, Leonard J.
Titel	Dewey's Theory of the Democratic Public and the Public Character of Charter Schools
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 60 (2010) 6, S.665-681 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-5446.2010.00383.x
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Institutional Characteristics; Public Education; Democratic Values; Social Values; Public Support; School Administration; Private Sector; Corporations; Nonprofit Organizations; Educational Theories; Progressive Education; Cognitive Structures; Public Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Öffentliche Erziehung; Sozialer Wert; Öffentliche Förderung; Öffentliche Trägerschaft; Privater Sektor; Unternehmen; Nonprofit-Organisation; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Reformpädagogik; Progressive Erziehung; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	In this essay, Leonard Waks reconsiders the issue of the public character of charter schools, that is, schools funded through public taxation but operated by non-state organizations such as nonprofit and for-profit educational corporations and nongovernmental public interest organizations. Using John Dewey's conception of a democratic public as a framework, Waks examines the following questions: (1) Are schools chartered and funded by government, but operated by nonprofit nongovernmental organizations, ever appropriate instruments of a democratic public? (2) If so, what criteria might distinguish those that are appropriate from those that are not? (3) How might public education be re-institutionalized so as to include the charter schools that are appropriate? Waks concludes that Dewey's theory of democratic publics can play a useful role in thinking about how to balance the democratic benefits of charter schools for the various subcommunities of our society with the democratic requirement of broad public discourse and intergroup education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10