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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 ...
Achieving Public Schools
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 ...
Heteroglossia and Philosophers of Education
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 ...
Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
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 ...
Public schools, public goods, and public work
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 ...