Publics for Public Schools : Legitimacy, Democracy, and Leadership.
Abowitz, Kathleen Knight.
Publics for Public Schools : Legitimacy, Democracy, and Leadership. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Where Is the Public in Public Schooling? -- "Our" Schools: Demos and the Making of Public Schooling -- From Public Schooling Expansion to the Reign of Private Purposes -- Whose Schools Are These Schools? This Book's Response and Plan -- Chapter 2 The Problem of Legitimacy -- Defining Legitimacy -- Political Legitimacy for Public Schools -- Principle 1: Fair Participation in Shared Governance -- Principle 2: Respecting Liberty and Pluralism -- Principle 3: Equal Opportunity -- Principle 4: Political Education for Democratic Life -- Principle 5: Professionalism -- Legitimacy Problems in a Diminishing State -- Chapter 3 The Publics of Public Schools -- Public and Publics: The Bifocal Vision -- The Necessity of Politics, but Not Politics-as-Usual -- Inadequate Metaphors (or, How Not to Think about Public Life) -- Civil Society and Publics for Public Schools -- The Private Sphere-Both Feeding and Diminishing Public Work -- Form and Function of Public Schooling -- Gaps between Publics and Public Schooling -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Publics: Formed of Problems, Existing in Conflict, Developing in Deliberation -- Publics Form in the Shared Experiences of Social Problems -- Publics Exist in Contestation as well as Ongoing Collaboration -- Publics Develop in Deliberation -- Achieving Publics in an Agonistic Public Sphere -- The Critique of Utopian Irrelevance -- Chapter 5 Community Organizing: Creating Publics for School Reform -- Community Organizing as a Tool for Achieving Publics for Schools -- Habits and Skills of Communication -- Habits and Skills of Leadership Development -- Habits and Skills of Building Power -- Habits and Skills of Collaborative Creation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Deliberative Democracy and Public Schools. Deliberative Democracy and the Schools -- The Theory of Deliberative Democracy -- Habits and Skills of Communication -- Habits and Skills of Building Power through Deliberative Democracy -- Habits and Skills of Leadership Development -- Habits and Skills of Collaborative Creation -- Deliberative Politics in School Governance -- Chapter 7 Public Leadership for Public Schools, with lead author Steven R. Thompson -- Leadership Challenges of Our Complex Global Age -- Our Addiction to Heroes -- Our Faulty Assumptions about Organizations and Communities -- Pitfalls on the Road toward Social Intelligence -- Public Creation: Leadership Habits and Skills -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Outlines a new conception of the public dimensions of schooling. Written for educational leaders working in or on behalf of public schooling.
9781315632520
Democracy and education - United States.
Electronic books.
LA217.2.A26 2013
371.010973
Publics for Public Schools : Legitimacy, Democracy, and Leadership. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (224 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Where Is the Public in Public Schooling? -- "Our" Schools: Demos and the Making of Public Schooling -- From Public Schooling Expansion to the Reign of Private Purposes -- Whose Schools Are These Schools? This Book's Response and Plan -- Chapter 2 The Problem of Legitimacy -- Defining Legitimacy -- Political Legitimacy for Public Schools -- Principle 1: Fair Participation in Shared Governance -- Principle 2: Respecting Liberty and Pluralism -- Principle 3: Equal Opportunity -- Principle 4: Political Education for Democratic Life -- Principle 5: Professionalism -- Legitimacy Problems in a Diminishing State -- Chapter 3 The Publics of Public Schools -- Public and Publics: The Bifocal Vision -- The Necessity of Politics, but Not Politics-as-Usual -- Inadequate Metaphors (or, How Not to Think about Public Life) -- Civil Society and Publics for Public Schools -- The Private Sphere-Both Feeding and Diminishing Public Work -- Form and Function of Public Schooling -- Gaps between Publics and Public Schooling -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Publics: Formed of Problems, Existing in Conflict, Developing in Deliberation -- Publics Form in the Shared Experiences of Social Problems -- Publics Exist in Contestation as well as Ongoing Collaboration -- Publics Develop in Deliberation -- Achieving Publics in an Agonistic Public Sphere -- The Critique of Utopian Irrelevance -- Chapter 5 Community Organizing: Creating Publics for School Reform -- Community Organizing as a Tool for Achieving Publics for Schools -- Habits and Skills of Communication -- Habits and Skills of Leadership Development -- Habits and Skills of Building Power -- Habits and Skills of Collaborative Creation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Deliberative Democracy and Public Schools. Deliberative Democracy and the Schools -- The Theory of Deliberative Democracy -- Habits and Skills of Communication -- Habits and Skills of Building Power through Deliberative Democracy -- Habits and Skills of Leadership Development -- Habits and Skills of Collaborative Creation -- Deliberative Politics in School Governance -- Chapter 7 Public Leadership for Public Schools, with lead author Steven R. Thompson -- Leadership Challenges of Our Complex Global Age -- Our Addiction to Heroes -- Our Faulty Assumptions about Organizations and Communities -- Pitfalls on the Road toward Social Intelligence -- Public Creation: Leadership Habits and Skills -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Outlines a new conception of the public dimensions of schooling. Written for educational leaders working in or on behalf of public schooling.
9781315632520
Democracy and education - United States.
Electronic books.
LA217.2.A26 2013
371.010973