Browsing Faculty Research and Scholarship by Author "Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen"
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Reclaiming Community
Knight-Abowitz, KathleenThe call for community can be heard throughout public and educational discourses; parallel calls for respecting difference are part of the discursive landscape as well. The terms have now become simplified and dichotomized. ... -
Rhetoric and the purposes of public education: building discourse for shared responsibility
Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Stitzlein, SarahIn this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric ... -
The school principal as democratic leader: A critique of the Wallace Foundation’s vision of the principalship
Knight-Abowitz, KathleenWhat is the role of the public school principal in the contemporary era? As conceived by many in educational policy-making and research today, the duty of the US school leader is to ensure that the district is, above all ... -
A Situated Philosophy of Education
Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Burbules, NicholasPhilosophy of education today is broadly divided between two fundamentally different views about the nature of philosophy itself. This meta-debate is almost never engaged directly, and yet it is exemplified in one way ... -
Social Foundations, Disciplinarity, and Democracy.
Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Quantz, RichardThis article was originally conceived for a paper session at the 2000 American Educational Studies Association conference in Vancouver, a session designed as a “multilogue” on teaching the foundations. In the article we ... -
Telling new stories about school
Stitzlein, Sarah M.; Knight-Abowitz, KathleenContemporary societies frame education through cultural narratives about schooling’s purposes and practices. Societal stories about school are not just reflective of our current views and values, but shape our political ... -
Virtual Charter Schools and the Democratic Aims of Education
Hornbeck, Dustin; Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Saultz, AndrewVirtual schooling is expanding as an alternative to traditional public schooling in the early twenty-first century. This paper analyzes virtual schooling with regards to the democratic associational aims of public schooling ... -
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Knight-Abowitz, KathleenAgonistic critiques of democratic theory conceptualize democracy as a site of conflict and struggle; as the fight against privatization escalates, these critiques become more relevant for educational governance. Public ... -
What makes a Public School Public? A Framework for Evaluating the Civic Substance of Schooling
Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Higgins, ChristopherBetween the banality of the phrase in some contexts and its sacredness in others, it is hard even to ask the most basic question: what makes a public school public? In realms of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy, ... -
What’s pragmatic about community organizing?
Knight-Abowitz, KathleenIn this paper I explore whether and how philosophical pragmatism might be a useful tool for achieving educational reform through social action work such as community organizing. I explore Aaron Schutz’s arguments relevant ...