Reconstructing Equality on New Political Ground: The Politics of Representation in the Charter School Debate at the University of California, San Diego

Autor/inn/en	Rosen, Lisa; Mehan, Hugh
Titel	Reconstructing Equality on New Political Ground: The Politics of Representation in the Charter School Debate at the University of California, San Diego
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 40 (2003) 3, S.655-682 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/00028312040003655
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Equal Education; Universities; Affirmative Action; Social Responsibility; Case Studies; Higher Education; Educational Policy; College Admission; Race; Ethnicity; Conflict Resolution; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; University; Universität; Soziale Verantwortung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Rasse; Abstammung; Ethnizität; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Kalifornien
Abstract	Attacks on the legitimacy of affirmative action pose new challenges for public universities committed to creating a diverse student population without considering race or ethnicity as factors in admissions. On the basis of a case study of the controversy surrounding the building of a charter school at the University of California, San Diego, in response to the elimination of affirmative action in University of California admissions, the authors describe the meaning-making process by which that campus established new procedures for promoting educational equality and constructed new meanings to justify those policies and to resolve conflicts about their legitimacy. The charter school was created after a contentious public debate, in which the concept for the school and tacit definitions of equality, of social responsibility, and of the university itself became objects of contestation. The analysis reveals (a) the constitutive social processes by which particular meanings of equality and social responsibility are constructed and institutionalized, and (b) the role of higher education policy in reconstituting meanings of equality in the wake of affirmative action's political retreat. (Contains 2 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10