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- Democratic Dilemmas: Joint Work, Education Politics, and Community
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
summary
Drawing on three years of field research and extensive theoretical and empirical literature, Democratic Dilemmas chronicles the day-to-day efforts of educators and laypersons working together to advance student learning in two California school districts. Julie A. Marsh reveals how power, values, organizational climates, and trust played key roles in these two districts achieving vastly different results. In one district, parents, citizens, teachers, and administrators effectively developed and implemented districtwide improvement strategies; in the other, community and district leaders unsuccessfully attempted to improve systemwide accountability through dialogue. The book highlights the inherent tensions of deliberative democracy, competing notions of representation, limitations of current conceptions of educational accountability, and the foundational importance of trust to democracy and education reform. It further provides a framework for improving community-educator collaboration and lessons for policy and practice.
Table of Contents
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- Figures and tables
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- 1 Setting the Stage
- pp. 17-58
- 2 Participation and Power
- pp. 59-78
- 3 Institutional Discord and Harmony
- pp. 79-100
- 4 The Democracy-Bureaucracy Face-off
- pp. 101-130
- 5 Climates of Trust and Mistrust
- pp. 131-156
- appendix a
- pp. 185-192
- appendix b
- pp. 193-196
- appendix c
- pp. 197-200
- References
- pp. 215-224
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791479933
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
173190017
Pages
242
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No