Educational policy for the pluralist democracy: The common school, choice and diversity

Interchange ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-209
Author(s):  
Elmer J. Thiessen
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Common School ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Embracing Pedagogical Pluralism:An Educator's Case for (at Least Public) School Choice

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
David J. Ferrero
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Reasonable Pluralism ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
Public School Choice ◽  
Common School ◽  
The Common

Pedagogical and curricular beliefs and commitments are expressions of deeper philosophical and ideological worldviews that empirical research can sometimes modify but not ultimately eliminate. The pluralism these views produce is reasonable in that they all represent plausible interpretations of liberal-republican values and professional standards of practice; they should be granted some room to flourish under a system of carefully regulated autonomy and choice. Three objections to a conception of school choice grounded in a notion of reasonable pluralism among educational doctrines are addressed: 1) that it would undermine educators' efforts to secure status for themselves as professionals by admitting that “best practices” in education offer rough guidance at best; 2) that it would leave parents and students vulnerable to quackery; 3) that it abandons the common school tradition and its aspirations. I conclude with an examination of why the conceptual basis on which a society designs a system of choice makes a difference.

Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States

1899 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 743
Author(s):  
John Dewey ◽  
B. A. Hinsdale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Common School ◽  
The Common
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