Taking the Public out of Education: The Perverse Notion that American Democracy Can Survive without Its Public Schools

Autor/in	Barber, Benjamin R.
Titel	Taking the Public out of Education: The Perverse Notion that American Democracy Can Survive without Its Public Schools
Quelle	In: School Administrator, 61 (2004) 5, S.10 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-6439
Schlagwörter	Public Education; Politics of Education; Democracy; Democratic Values; Educational Policy; Privatization; Citizenship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Demokratie; Politics of education; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Staatsbürgerschaft
Abstract	In this article, the author analyzes public education, and whether America can survive without it. There is a deep sense in which the phrase "public education" is redundant: Education is public, above all in a democracy. To think of it any other way is to rob it of its essential meaning. For education is an essential public good addressed to young citizens-to-be as members of a community. Education not only speaks to the public, it is the means by which a public is forged. It is how individuals are transformed into responsible participants in the communities of the classroom, the neighborhood, the town, the nation and (in schools that recognize the new interdependence of our times) the world to which they belong. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	American Association of School Administrators. 801 North Quincy Street Suite 700, Arlington, VA 22203-1730. Tel: 703-528-0700; Fax: 703-841-1543; e-mail: info@aasa.org; Web site: http://www.aasa.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10