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DEMOCRATICALLY GROUNDED

J. Barron, A. Wasilko, H. Yuan

WHAT

DOES IT MEAN TO BE AN

EDUCATED PERSON IN A

DEMOCRACY?

OVERVIEW
Strand Summary
Education and Democracy
Citizenship and Responsibility
Justice Oriented Citizens
Democracy: Disillusion?
Featured Authors
George H Wood
Michael W. Apple and James A. Beane.

EDUCATION AND DEMOCRACY


Educators coming to social justice from this
perspective situate their thinking about justice in
connection to considering the fundamental purposes
of education in a democratic society.
-George H Wood
Democratic citizens value new ideas and have an
open mind
Concerned for welfare of others
Fight for the rights of the oppressed
Create institutions to further these ideals

CITIZENSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY


3 Types of citizenship
Personally Responsible: Good moral
character, respectful, obey laws and donate
time and money
Participatory: Take theirs efforts further by
being active in government, community and
promote social change
Justice-Oriented: Value participation, but
analyze and look for the root of the cause

JUSTICE ORIENTED CITIZENS


Support a thriving democracy
Important to a political life
Promotes world wide support for others
a school unabashed in its commitment to
fostering the attitudes, skills and knowledge
required to engage and act on important social
issues
~Westheimer and Kahne

DEMOCRACY: DISILLUSION?
Claims and reality are far apart from
each other
Democracy is an illusion and there are
random denials of rights
scholars are invested in the theoretical
idealism of democracy, they appear amnesiatic
toward the continued lived realities of
democratically induced oppression.
~ Richardson and Villenas

GEORGE H WOOD
George H. Wood is principal of Federal Hocking High School in Stewart,
Ohio and serves as the Executive Director of The Forum. Dr. Wood's
30-year career in public education includes work as a classroom
teacher, school board member, professor of education, and school
principal.
He is the Founding Director of Wildwood Secondary School in Los
Angeles and has served as principal of Federal Hocking for 17
years. Federal Hocking is a rural school in Appalachian Ohio which
has been recognized as a Coalition of Essential Schools Mentor School,
a First Amendment School, and as one of America's 100 Best by
Readers' Digest.
He authored Governor Ted Strickland's (OH) K-12 Education
Transition Paper as well as the books Schools That Work, Time to
Learn, and Many Children Left Behind (ed. with Deborah Meier).

RICHARDSON & VILLENAS


Troy Richardson
Student in the Graduate School of Education, University of
Pennsylvania. His mailing address is Rt. 2 Box 1160, Macon, NC
27551. His primary areas of scholarship are first nations, studies,
philosophy of language, social/cultural foundations of education,
and indigenous languages.

Sofia Villenas
Visiting Assistant Professor in the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, Larsen Hall. 3d Floor, Appian Way,
Cambridge, MA 02138. Her primary areas of scholarship are
anthropology and education, Latino family education, and
Chicana feminisms and education.

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
What does it mean to say that we have a
social justice orient to our work?
In a theoretical sense
In a practical sense

How does all of this change when you are


grounded democratically?
How can we create socially just institutions,
policies, systems, and structures?

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