What Happened to the "Public" in Public Education?

Autor/inn/en	King, David; Keeping, Janet
Titel	What Happened to the "Public" in Public Education?
Quelle	In: Education Canada, 52 (2012) 3 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1253
Schlagwörter	Public Education; Foreign Countries; Public Policy; Democracy; Citizenship; Political Attitudes; Values; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Ausland; Öffentliche Ordnung; Demokratie; Staatsbürgerschaft; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Wertbegriff; Kanada
Abstract	Many Canadians seem to have lost track of the role that public education plays in the nurturing of our civic culture. We have allowed consumerist thinking--the more choice, the better--to infect public policy around education. A moment's reflection reminds us that the corollary of consumerism is fragmentation. It is important that choice in public education be conducive to the attainment of both public policy objectives and the needs of the student. In our view, public school systems should not facilitate choice that is simply a market response to consumer demand for different "packaging", elite accommodation, or any other factor irrelevant to those two primary objectives. Not all choice-based schools threaten Canadian democracy and civic values, but some do--particularly those that segregate children along lines such as race, ethnicity, gender, religion, or economic status. History teaches us that segregation promotes elitism and militates against the development of a fair-minded, inclusive democracy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10