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Volatile Knowing
Parents, Teachers, and the Censored Story of Accountability in America's Public Schools
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2008
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Volatile Knowing refers to the potential for positive change that can result when parents and teachers talk with each other about the politics and policies of externally defined accountability mandates in education. This text tells the story of twelve teachers and parents who breached the unofficial but deeply inscribed home/school divide to discuss the current accountability-for-uniformity movement that has overtaken the nation's educational agenda at federal, state, and local levels. This kind of volatile knowing offers hope for progressively-minded citizens: that together, parents and teachers can ignite a new, child-centered movement for accountability and creativity in America's public schools. Volatile Knowing is based on a qualitative case study of a particular group of parents and teachers who studied and discussed information about the accountability movement that is typically censored in mainstream media coverage. The themes that emerged in this study are presented through the lens of Foucault's analysis of the workings of modern power. By making the exercise of hierarchical power visible to readers, it is hoped that Volatile Knowing will prompt an expanding conversation and ongoing study of the ways in which the people's definitional authority in their schools and society can be both lost and found.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1559-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4571-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
209
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Table of Contents No access
Foreword No access
Acknowledgements No access
Chapter 1: Accountability in the Schools: What the People Don't Know No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 2: Challenging the Virtually Unchallenged: A Personal Experience No access Pages 11 - 20
Chapter 3: Making Sense of the Accountability Movement: Organized (and Profitable) Malevolence Against the Public Schools No access Pages 21 - 44
Chapter 4: Redefining Accountability in Our Schools: Inviting Parents to the Learning Community No access Pages 45 - 90
Chapter 5: Research Findings: Tracing a Path Toward Hope No access Pages 91 - 124
Chapter 6: The Inversion of Visibility No access Pages 125 - 134
Chapter 7: The Instruments of Discipline No access Pages 135 - 160
Chapter 8: Reframing the Panopticon No access Pages 161 - 170
Appendix A: Methodology No access Pages 171 - 190
Appendix B: Discipline in the Public School Panopticon No access Pages 191 - 194
Appendix C: Osmosis & The Evolution of the Public School Panopticon No access Pages 195 - 196
