Continuity and change in the pursuit of a democratic public mission for our schools

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 565-571

  Bellamy, G Thomas ^a   Goodlad, John I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Institute for Educational Inquiry

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EID: 42349090833     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170808900806     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. For a penetrating analysis of the nature, extent, and power of education outside of schools, see Jane Roland Martin, Educational Metamorphoses (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
2. For a comprehensive report on a decade of this work, see Kenneth A. Sirotnik et al., Renewing Schools & Teacher Education: An Odyssey in Educational Change (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2001).
3. For further discussion of these new challenges and the need for collaboration among the three major groups of players, see G. Thomas Bellamy et al., Principal Accomplishments: How School Leaders Succeed (New York: Teachers College Press, 2007).
4. For recent examples, see David Gelernter, "A World Without Public Schools: If the Consensus Underlying American Public Education Has Disappeared, Why Shouldn't the Institution?," The Weekly Standard, 4 June 2007, pp. 29-35;
5. and Frederick M. Hess, "The Case for Educational Entrepreneurship: Hard Truths About Risk, Reform, and Reinvention," Phi Delta Kappan, September 2007, pp. 21-30.
6. David Labaree, "No Exit: Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good," in Larry Cuban and Dorothy Shipps, eds., Reconstructing the Common Good in Education (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000), p. 110.
7. Robert D. Putnam, "E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century -The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize Lecture," Scandinavian Political Studies, June 2007, pp. 137-74.
8. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Lnvention (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).
9. Richard W. Clark, Effective Professional Development Schools (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999).
10. Robert S. Patterson, Nicholas M. Michelli, and Arturo Pacheco, Centers of Pedagogy: New Structures for Educational Renewal (San Francisco: JosseyBass, 1999).
11. The need for and nature of this conversation, its role in advancing the democratic purpose of education, the difficulties to be overcome in the necessary collaboration, and examples of successful progress are discussed in John I. Goodlad, Roger Soder, and Bonnie McDaniel, eds., Education and the Making of a Democratic People (Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2008).