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Democratic Schools, Second Edition: Lessons in Powerful Education 2nd Edition

by Michael Apple (Author), James Beane (Author)
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Every once in a while, with the passage of time, a classic book takes on even greater relevance. The first edition of Democratic Schools was praised by legions of education professionals for showing how to create schools and classrooms with democratic values in mind; it was hailed for its clear-eyed assessment of the important role schools continue to play in promoting democracy, its traditions, and its thinking. Now an expanded and updated edition of Democratic Schools arrives, increasingly relevant in a time of inequitable accountability-based reform, standardized assessments, and cookie-cutter curricula. Michael Apple and James Beane return to challenge reform movements such as No Child Left Behind by asserting that our schools have a vital and historic connection to the continued success of our democratic way of life. Democratic Schools, Second Edition, shows in detail how educators can make a lasting difference by combining authentic, important lessons and a consistent, building- or system-wide focus on a critical and democratic education. Apple and Beane once more convene seven of Americas most creative democratic educators for a powerful conversation about how to build an education that is worthy of our highest ideals. The essays that made the first edition so potent are here in their entirety, each followed by brand-new retrospective insight from their writers, educators who have proven that teachers and administrators can bring the nations most noble values to life every day. Contributors include:
  • Michael W. Apple
  • James A. Beane
  • Bob Peterson
  • Brian D. Schultz
  • Barbara L. Brodhagen
  • Larry Rosenstock
  • Adria Steinberg
  • Deborah Meier
  • Paul Schwarz.
Grounded in a robust understanding of democracy, education, and the exigencies of our political and social systems, the second edition of Democratic Schools goes beyond updating and expanding the stories of the schools it originally chronicled. It adds new materialincluding a brand new chapter from Apple and Beanethat provides crucial lessons for creating and sustaining democratic schools, and that once again inspires teachers, administrators, and educational leaders to adopt ways of framing their mission that can create and sustain our democratic way of lifeeven in these difficult times.
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    0325010757
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0325010755
  3. Edition
    2nd
  4. Publisher
    Heinemann
  5. Publication date
    January 30, 2007
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 0.42 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    176 pages
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A former classroom teacher, James A. Beane currently divides his time between his position as a professor at National-Louis University and as a school reform coach at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of Curriculum Integration (1997), A Middle School Curriculum (1993), and Affect in the Curriculum (1990). He is also coauthor of Democratic Schools (1995), The Middle School and Beyond (1992), When the Kids Come First (1987), Self-Concept, Self-Esteem COMMA and the Curriculum (1986), and Curriculum Planning and Development (1986). Additionally, he was co-editor ONE WORD of Democratic Schools; and edited the 1995 ASCD Yearbook Toward A Coherent Curriculum. Beane has spoken at numerous conferences, has consulted for international educational projects, and served in leadership capacities for several education professional associations.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Heinemann; 2nd edition (January 30, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0325010757
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0325010755
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 - 18 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Kindergarten - 12
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.42 x 9 inches
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Adekunle Lawal
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015
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Simply excellent!
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Crystal Radford
5.0 out of 5 stars There's NOTHING like a good Michael Apple book
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022
Now I see why certain ideas and words have just seemed to drop into my consciousness. They were planted there and I'm just elaborating on them because of what I see in the world and in my work. Thank you, Dr. Apple. Thank you, Dr. Gordon.
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Ceek
3.0 out of 5 stars A Messy Sort of Democracy
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2012
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While I appreciated Democratic Schools' concepts and ideas, I must also document some of my frustrations with the book's organization and execution.

I'll begin with what I liked. First, the educators the authors selected worked in a variety of educational contexts and with a variety of kids across the country. Democratic education, the authors want us to understand, is possible in both urban and suburban contexts and with kids labeled gifted and talented as well as at risk. It can also be created as part of a community-wide re-imagining of the school space or as through the efforts of a single committed teacher. Additionally, I thought that the types of democratic education the authors chose to profile were laudable both in concept and practice. The Fratney School's bilingual, anti-racist curriculum represented a vast political project that required community-wide commitment; the Central Park East High School implemented an impressive portfolio system that provided a more holistic assessment of students' progress through high school, helping them take pride in their academic growth as well as their ultimate accomplishments.

My frustrations come as a would-be democratic educator seeking to take away practical lessons to use in the classroom. In this case, the text proved muddy. Each educator adopted a similar approach to describing their unique approach to democratic education; this means you have to read through each six different curricular philosophies, six different accounts of institutional hurdles overcome, six different sets of inspiration anecdotes, six different recitations of shortcomings, and six different vaguely worded prescriptions to would-be democratic educators. Rarely did I come away from a chapter saying, "Wow, this is important, and I need to start doing this in my classroom -- and I now I know how." Rather, I usually thought "Huh, this is interesting, but I would need to see this school in action and talk to teachers and students to understand how it really looks and feels." In other words, this text often piqued my curiosity about more democratic possibilities for education, but failed to deliver substantive answers of how, exactly, to implement it.

Recently, I had the opportunity to visit and spend the day in one of the schools profiled in the book. The visit raised a third frustration: the school I saw was a bit different from its depiction in the book (a product of the original textual account being over twenty years old). Even though my version of Democratic Schools was supposedly a second edition updated in 2007, the authors had not noted some (fairly sizable) changes in the school's curriculum that had taken place since the original piece's publication. In the same update, the text glosses over the fact that two of the other schools profiled have since closed and at least three of the educators profiled no longer work in the classroom on a daily basis. If there is a third edition, some of the profiled schools need a more in-depth accounting of their evolution since the book's original publication. Programs that have altered to the point they no longer qualify as "democratic schools," need to be replaced with new schools' democratic initiatives.

If democratic education is to persist as a viable alternative to corporate-style, accountability-driven ed reform, readers need more than the fossilized memories from erstwhile educators from which to draw inspiration and practical lessons to apply to today's classrooms.
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T Bates
4.0 out of 5 stars Needed for class
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2014
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I had to buy this book for a class I was taking. I did not have to read the entire book. I thought this book was a good read.
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The Rational Male
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, simple, and worthless
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2019
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This book is probably the worst I ever read in ed.
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