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Sites of Liberation or Sites of Despair?: The Challenges and Possibilities of Democratic Education in an Urban Public School in New York City

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Title: Sites of Liberation or Sites of Despair?: The Challenges and Possibilities of Democratic Education in an Urban Public School in New York City
Language: English
Authors: Hantzopoulos, Maria
Source: Anthropology & Education Quarterly. Dec 2015 46(4):345-362.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 18
Publication Date: 2015
Document Type: Journal Articles
Opinion Papers
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Democracy, Student Experience
Geographic Terms: New York
DOI: 10.1111/aeq.12115
ISSN: 0161-7761
Abstract: This article considers the possibilities of critical democratic education through the lived experiences of students at an urban U.S. public school. I show how students shape their own educational trajectories amid larger meta-narratives about schooling to illuminate the complexities and paradoxes of democratic schools. I argue that democratic schools are neither sites of transformation nor sites of despair, but rather sites where agency is negotiated, contested, and remade, often in unexpected, unassuming, and contradictory ways.
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Entry Date: 2015
Accession Number: EJ1081461
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This article considers the possibilities of critical democratic education through the lived experiences of students at an urban U.S. public school. I show how students shape their own educational trajectories amid larger meta-narratives about schooling to illuminate the complexities and paradoxes of democratic schools. I argue that democratic schools are neither sites of transformation nor sites of despair, but rather sites where agency is negotiated, contested, and remade, often in unexpected, unassuming, and contradictory ways.
ISSN:0161-7761
DOI:10.1111/aeq.12115