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- Title: Guest Editor's Introduction: Contradictions and Paradoxes--Theorizing Charter Schools from Social Foundations Perspectives (Journals' Education Service) (Editorial)
- Author : Educational Foundations
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 218 KB
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In this special issue of Educational Foundations, contributing authors use sociological, anthropological, and post-modern analysis to unmask some of the troubling contradictions of charter schools in action. Represented in this issue are the diversity of types of charters--ones founded by parents, educators, and corporations--operating across the country as well as charters with varied missions. This issue offers readers stories of charter schools whose contradictions and paradoxes bring life to critical issues in educational foundations such as equity, race, caring, identity, and power and privilege. The focus of this special issue is not specifically on policy, accountability, or the promise or the failure of charter reform efforts. Instead, a premise that educators need to consider when looking at reforms like charter schools is "what for" and "at what cost?" A more critical look at the contradictions of charter reforms, and the use of various theoretical frameworks to understand how those contradictions play out in multiple contexts, are essential to asking these more difficult and complex questions.