Democratic Dilemmas: Joint Work, Education Politics, and Community

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FIGURE I.1 Dimensions of Democratic Joint Work 6 FIGURE I.2 Democratic Governance Models 7 FIGURE 1.1 Highland Criteria for Strategic Planning Team Membership 30 FIGURE 1.2 How Structure Encouraged a Focus on the Common Good 33 FIGURE 1.3 Failure to Persuade Others: Losing a Fight versus Losing an Argument 39 FIGURE 1.4 What Form Joint Work Took in Highland and Mid Valley 57 FIGURE 2.1 The Dependence of Norms of Preclusion on Contextual Features of Joint Work 73 FIGURE 3.1 Conceptions of Educator-Layperson Roles in Educational Decision Making 81 TABLE 1.1 Descriptions of Case Study Districts (1998–99) 19 TABLE 1.2 Mid Valley Districtwide SAT-9 Results 1998–2000 21 TABLE 1.3 Highland Districtwide SAT-9 Results 1998–2000 23 TABLE 1.4 Overview of How Democratic Joint Work Unfolded in Mid Valley and Highland 24 TABLE 3.1 A Sample of Views on the Proper Role of Educators versus Noneducators 84 TABLE 4.1 Student Demographic Variation within Districts 126 TABLE 5.1 Teachers’ Attitudes about the District and Its Leaders 134 TABLE 5.2 Patterns of Interpersonal Trust 136 TABLE 5.3 Reported Level of Trust for Superintendent 138 TABLE 5.4 Perceptions of Representation 152 xi Figures and Tables TABLE 6.1 Lessons for Achieving Deliberative Democratic Joint Work in Practice 171 TABLE A.1 Description of School Samples in Mid Valley and Highland 187 TABLE A.2 Interview and Focus Group Totals for Mid Valley and Highland 189 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xii ...