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Direct linkWaks, Leonard J. – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay, Leonard Waks reconsiders the issue of the public character of charter schools, that is, schools funded through public taxation but operated by non-state organizations such as nonprofit and for-profit educational corporations and nongovernmental public interest organizations. Using John Dewey's conception of a democratic public as a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Public Education, Democratic Values
Peer reviewedThayer-Bacon, Barbara J. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2001
Explores the central pragmatist and feminist philosophical assumption that knowers cannot be separated from what is known, that there is a dialectical relationship between social beings and ideas. Argues for embracing pluralistic and democratic commitments on epistemological and moral grounds. (KS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Communication Skills, Constructivism (Learning)
