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Re-envisioning Education and Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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The fate of public education and therefore the future of our
democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to
public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply
troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and
empower efforts toward systemic progressive reform. This book is an
invitation for widespread participation in a complex
process-re-envisioning education and democracy. To reenvision- to
envision and then envision again-is to join with others in
imagining new possibilities and bringing these into existence.
Re-envisioning is a radically social process. Although distinct and
varied individual contributions are required, transformative
visions cannot be advanced through the agency of one charismatic
person, or bound by one influential perspective. The process of
re-envisioning, like all forms of democratic living and learning,
draws energy and insight when connection and communion are
sustained across dimensions of difference. Re-envisioning is an
intensely creative and exploratory process. It is not accomplished
through careful construction of "best laid plans" aimed at
attaining certainty and control. Re-envisioning is instead
experienced and evolved by preparing for, and then acting on,
informed and strategic glimpses. These brief and fleeting
impressions-multimodal and multi-sensory, incomplete and ambiguous,
always in motion-offer potentials, but no definitive answers.
Re-envisioning is a profoundly ethical and aesthetic process,
centered in prospects for social justice, compassion, reform, and
renewal. Social movements are rarely motivated by commitments to
narrow objectives aimed at solving specific problems. Across time
and cultures we are drawn to persons and processes, to ideas and
images, that call us back to remember our highest principles, and
move us forward to respond with acts of integrity and grace.
Recurrent themes of beauty and power-here mirrored in chapter
titles-inspire, guide, and liberate collective vision and
principled action. Re-envisioning, although accessible to all,
remains largely undeveloped and underutilized. Our collective
ability to realize progressive aspirations for education and
democracy can be significantly enhanced by integrating the process
of re-envisioning with other, more familiar, educational and
political reform strategies.
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