Citizenship Development and the Market's Impact: Examining Democratic Learning in Charter Schools in Two Regions

作     者：Hernandez, Laura E. Castillo, Elise 

作者机构：Learning Policy Inst 1530 Page Mill RdSuite 200 Palo Alto CA 94304 USA Trinity Coll Program Educ Studies Hartford CT 06106 USA Trinity Coll Program Publ Policy & Law Hartford CT 06106 USA 

出 版 物：《EDUCATIONAL POLICY》 (教育政策)

年 卷 期：2022年第36卷第2期

页      面：440-475页

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学科分类：0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 

基　　金：K. Patricia Cross Collaborative Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley National Academy of Education National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program 

主　　题：charter schools market-based reform democratic engagement 

摘      要：The marketization of U.S. schools has increasingly complicated and even undermined the democratic aims of education, causing many to argue that democratic and market ideologies are fundamentally opposed. This meta-ethnographic study uses conceptual tools from democratic theory and the research on civic education to investigate how leaders in one market-based organization-charter schools-grapple with tensions between the market and democracy in fostering the democratic orientations of their students and parents. Findings reveal that charter leaders primarily facilitate democratic learning opportunities that advance their organizational interests and promote a narrow and more individualistic conceptualization of democracy at the expense of a communitarian, justice-oriented one. The bounded vision of democracy observed in charter school practices suggests that market pressures may drive charters to focus their democratic engagement on the instrumental aims of ensuring their organizational survival in a competitive educational marketplace, despite espoused commitments to broader democratic aims.