03239nam 2200661Ia 450 991082221700332120200520144314.00-7914-7993-51-4294-9829-3(CKB)1000000000477706(OCoLC)173190017(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575798(SSID)ssj0000136624(PQKBManifestationID)11139224(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000136624(PQKBWorkID)10084249(PQKB)10498301(MiAaPQ)EBC3407372(MdBmJHUP)muse6554(Au-PeEL)EBL3407372(CaPaEBR)ebr10575798(DE-B1597)682468(DE-B1597)9780791479933(EXLCZ)99100000000047770620060705d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrDemocratic dilemmas joint work, education politics, and community /Julie A. Marsh1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20071 online resource (244 p.) SUNY series, school districtsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7127-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.Setting the stage -- Participation and power -- Institutional discord and harmony -- The democracy-bureaucracy face-off -- Climates of trust and mistrust -- Implications for policy and practice in an era of accountability.Drawing on three years of field research and extensive theoretical and empirical literature, Democratic Dilemmas chronicles the day-to-day efforts of educators and laypersons working together to advance student learning in two California school districts. Julie A. Marsh reveals how power, values, organizational climates, and trust played key roles in these two districts achieving vastly different results. In one district, parents, citizens, teachers, and administrators effectively developed and implemented districtwide improvement strategies; in the other, community and district leaders unsuccessfully attempted to improve systemwide accountability through dialogue. The book highlights the inherent tensions of deliberative democracy, competing notions of representation, limitations of current conceptions of educational accountability, and the foundational importance of trust to democracy and education reform. It further provides a framework for improving community-educator collaboration and lessons for policy and practice.SUNY series, school districts.Educational changeCaliforniaEducation and stateCaliforniaCommunity and schoolCaliforniaDecision makingCaliforniaEducational changeEducation and stateCommunity and schoolDecision making379.794Marsh Julie A1124716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822217003321Democratic dilemmas4014753UNINA