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Virtual Charter Schools and the Democratic Aims of Education
Virtual 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 ...
A Situated Philosophy of Education
Philosophy 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 ...
What’s pragmatic about community organizing?
In 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 ...
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Agonistic 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
Between 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, ...
Moving Out of the Cellar: A New (?) Existentialism for a Future without Teachers
We employ some of the most recognizable ideas from the existentialism of Sartre and Kierkegaard
as a way to understand the current “teacher (human) condition.” In so doing we examine
key existentialist concepts—fear and ...
Imagining democratic futures for public universities: Educational leadership against fatalism’s temptations
At current rates, almost all U.S. public universities could reach a point of zero state subsidy
within the next fifty years. What is a public university without public funding? In this essay, Kathleen
Knight Abowitz ...
Charter schooling and democratic justice
As the mixed achievements of charter schools come under more intense
political inspection, the conceptual underpinnings of current charter school
reform remain largely unexamined. This article focuses on one moralpolit ...
Moral perception through aesthetics: Engaging imaginations in educational ethics
Moral "seeing" - the ability to take in the particulars of a moral encounter, and to interpret and imagine its implications - is analogous to aesthetic perception. This article defends and explores the use of aesthetic ...
The Interdependency of vocational and liberal aims in higher education
Our teaching and curricula need to reflect the connected nature of the vocational and the liberal, two differing but interrelated aims in higher education.Most students see their academic lives—their liberal arts classes ...