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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.
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).
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