Sentences with phrase «democratic purpose of education»

School integration is fundamental to advancing the democratic purpose of education.

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Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

My job is to disturb this process and help re-direct the purpose of education to rebuilding a democratic socialist alternative to capitalism.

Professor Alan Reid observes how the emphasis on democratic purposes has been trumped by individual, private purposes that result in such things as marketing of schools, residualisation of public education and the growth in disparity of resources between schools, and by an economic purpose that casts students as human capital to be enlisted in the cause of economic recovery and growth.

It is a basic purpose of education to prepare young people to actively participate in our democratic society.

Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic republic.

I am hopeful that we can sit alongside each other and do the hard work of answering the questions most central to our democracy: What is the purpose of public education in a democratic society?

They also need to reflect on how those practices contribute to the larger purposes of education in a democratic society.

The purpose of his trip to D.C. was to brag about his Education Reform Initiative, the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education bill introduced by any Democratic governor in the UniteEducation Reform Initiative, the most anti-teacher, anti-union, anti-public education bill introduced by any Democratic governor in the Uniteeducation bill introduced by any Democratic governor in the United States.

For the purposes of this paper, the data are analyzed specifically to examine his incorporation of educational technology in his multicultural democratic education pedagogy.

The paper culminates in a set of recommendations that are intended to re-center the purposes of public education for low - income students, students of color, and local communities in developing more equitable, democratic school turnarounds.