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Re-Framing Educational Politics for Social Justice
Catherine Marshall, University of North Carolina
Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin, University of Vermont

ISBN-10: 0205371426
ISBN-13: 9780205371426

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 336 pp
Published: 09/28/2004

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This book challenges leaders, educators and researchers to grapple with the realities of education politics and to act as positive advocates for social justice.

This text offers strategies for educators to understand and take charge of education politics and includes a range of new approaches to study politics. Each chapter is organized to provide frameworks and findings from traditional to new theories and methodologies and political strategies. The entire text is oriented toward building critiquing skills, modeling successful political strategies, and doing politics differently to empower educators and researchers.

Important coverage of race, gender, sexuality, globalism, and other multicultural issues within the study of politics is integrated throughout the text. This text is also rich with pedagogical features such as exercises that build skills and vignettes that illustrate how educators make decisions and successfully take charge of political situations.

  • Includes balanced coverage between practical insights and strategies for impacting politics with the theory, research, and methodological insights that will enable readers to formulate studies of politics. Readers get research-based yet practical information while also being guided to see the underlying assumptions of the theories and research methodologies that frame all studies.
  • Embeds race, gender, sexuality, and multicultural issues within the study of politics so these issues become part and parcel of politics of education.
  • Discusses political dilemmas in the U.S. and compares education policy outcomes with other countries to demonstrate how countries borrow education policy strategies from each other (Ch. 7).
  • Every chapter contains Guiding Questions and ends with a Decision-Making Challenge and end-of-chapter Exercises that provide practice and skill-building opportunities. The Exercises include provocative questions that require readers to take a stand and/or to speculate, as educational leaders, on the implications of political dilemmas and challenges.
  • Every chapter contains real-life illustrations or vignettes, from highly visible political actors to those often-forgotten and marginalized, that demonstrate follow-up on issues and also build readers' skills in interpretation and analysis.
  • An extensive bibliography and useful Web links serve as resources to allow readers to seek out original and very far-ranging, up-to-date sources.

Dedication.
 
Foreward.
 
Preface.

List of Tables and Figures.
 
I. SECTION INTRODUCTION.
 
1. Frameworks for Puzzles in Politics and Policy.
 
2. The Politics of Policy Implementation and Analysis.
 
3. Alternative Visions for Advocacy Analysis.
 
II. SECTION INTRODUCTION: ARENAS.
 
4. Micropolitics: Uncovering "Hidden" Power.
 
5. Democracy and Community in District Politics. 
 
6. State Policy Shifts, Accountability, and Cultural Idiosyncrasies.
 
7. Federal Policy Communities, Interest Groups, and Standards.
 
8. Global Education Politics.
 
III. SECTION INTRODUCTION.
 
9. Intertwined Policies, Pendulum Shifts, & Strange Bedfellows.
 
10. Strategies for Policy Advocates.
 
References.

“This book offers a unique approach to the study of the politics of education...Intellectually stimulating.”
Larry Hughes, Ph.D, University of Houston

“Interesting and current research in the realm of educational politics... Beautifully written.”
Anthony Normore, Ph.D, Florida International University

This text challenges leaders, educators and researchers to grapple with the realities of educational politics and to act as positive advocates for social justice. The text offers strategies for educators to understand and take charge of educational politics and includes a range of new approaches to study politics. Each chapter is organized to provide frameworks and findings from traditional as well as new theories and methodologies and political strategies. The whole book is oriented toward building critiquing skills, modeling successful political strategies, and doing politics differently to empower educators and researchers.

Features:

  • Includes balanced coverage between practical perspectives and strategies for impacting politics with the theory, research, and methodological insights that will enable readers to formulate studies of politics.
  • Embeds race, gender, sexuality, and multicultural issues within the study of politics so these issues become part and parcel of politics of education.
  • Discusses political dilemmas in the U.S. and compares educational policy outcomes with other countries to demonstrate how countries borrow educational policy strategies from each other (Chapter 7).
  • Every chapter contains Guiding Questions and ends with Exercises that provide practice and skill-building opportunities. The Exercises include provocative questions that require readers to take a stand and/or to speculate, as educational leaders, on the implications of political dilemmas and challenges.
  • Every chapter contains real-life illustrations or vignettes, from highly visible political actors as well as from the often forgotten and marginalized, that demonstrate follow-up on issues and also build readers' skills in interpretation and analysis.
  • An extensive bibliography and useful web links serve as resources to allow readers to seek out original and very far-ranging, up-to-date sources.

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