Individuality, Equality, and Creative Democracy--The Task before Us

Autor/in	Garrison, Jim
Titel	Individuality, Equality, and Creative Democracy--The Task before Us
Quelle	In: American Journal of Education, 118 (2012) 3, S.369-379 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0195-6744
DOI	10.1086/664739
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Creativity; Student Teachers; Equal Education; Democracy; Educational Opportunities; Public Education; Criticism; Social Control; Moral Values; Educational Attitudes; Teacher Education; Role of Education; Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kreativität; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Demokratie; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Öffentliche Erziehung; Kritik; Soziale Kontrolle; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Bildungsauftrag; Standard
Abstract	Education is ubiquitous and inevitable; schooling is an institutionalized activity usually confined to designated times and places. Public schooling is subject to public regulation and control, presumably for the common good. The author contends that true democratic education seeks educational equality as a way to educate individuals capable of criticizing and recreating society--not simply reproducing the status quo. Surprisingly, many of the author's student teachers find the notion of creative democracy puzzling. They assume their democracy is complete and only requires preserving. This essay arises out of the author's efforts to reply to their perplexity. The author stresses that educators must assail the very idea of one-size-fits-all standards as a vehicle for educational equality in a democratic society, especially in such a society's public school system. He argues that equality is the antithesis of sameness, at least in the sense of democratic equality, or what Dewey sometimes calls "moral equality." Democratic moral equality celebrates incommensurably unique, one-time-only qualitative individuality. When people interpret equality in terms of quantitative sameness and one-size-fits-all standards, it destroys democratic moral equality while corrupting the ideal of equality of educational opportunity. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10