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    Achieving Public Schools 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    Public schools are functionally provided through structural arrangements such as government funding, but public schools are achieved in substance, in part, through local governance. In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz ...
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    Heteroglossia and Philosophers of Education 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    Essay commentary on Rene Arcilla's question regarding the predicament of the contemporary philosopher of education. I use the example of Cornel West to illustrate how his philosophical work exemplifies the concept of ...
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    Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Harnish, Jason
    Meanings of “citizenship,” a concept that has informed teaching practices since nation-states first institutionalized schooling, are shaped over time and through cultural struggles. This article presents a conceptual ...
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    Public schools, public goods, and public work 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Stitzlein, Sarah M.
    When determining whether public schools constitute a public good, it’s important to understand what we mean by a public good. An economic definition, common among school choice advocates, focuses on the individual benefits ...
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    The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen; Mamlok, Dan
    Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of ...
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    The school principal as democratic leader: A critique of the Wallace Foundation’s vision of the principalship 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    What 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 ...
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    Citizenship in our Time: Community Service, Town Meeting, Protest March, or Drag Show 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    How is citizenship properly enacted in the contemporary era? How are contemporary discourses of citizenship constructing and reconstructing our meanings of the terms of citizenship? To answer these questions, I have recently ...
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    A Pragmatist Revisioning of Resistance Theory 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    Resistance theorists in education urge educators to evaluate the moral and political potential of opposition in schools. The scholarship of resistance calls us to examine oppositional acts of students in school settings ...
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    Telling new stories about school 

    Stitzlein, Sarah M.; Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    Contemporary 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 ...
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    Reclaiming Community 

    Knight-Abowitz, Kathleen
    The 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. ...
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