Agenda for Education in a Democracy

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
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AED What is it?
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Emerging from in-depth research on and practical
experience with schools and teacher education
extending throughout John Goodlad's long career
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• The Agenda for Education in a Democracy is a
  comprehensive educational renewal initiative
  developed by John I. Goodlad. It addresses how
  best to prepare teachers and students in a social
  and political democracy. These ideas are laid out
  in a variety of books and other publications.

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Mission
• Conditions
• Strategy

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Mission
• (Moral, encompassing both ends and means)
• Knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to
  participate in a democracy
• Nurturing pedagogy
• Access to knowledge by all students
• Stewardship of the school

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Democracy
What are the necessary skills and dispositions
of citizens in a renewing and ever-healthier
democracy?
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Teaching of skills and dispositions
(Enculturation)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Attention to how we teach - - modeling democratic
dispositions and nurturing each individual child
(Nurturing Pedagogy)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Nurturing Pedagogy
Attention to equity and justice - - whose
interests are being served? (Access to Knowledge)
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Democracy
Agenda for Education in a Democracy
Enculturation
Nurturing Pedagogy
Access to Knowledge
Accepting responsibility (Stewardship)
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Education in a Democracy

• Purpose of schools is to prepare well educated,
  creative, and thoughtful citizens who are active,
  critical participants in the civic processes that
  promote our democracy.

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Conditions
• (Those necessary to the education of Americas
  teachers and the health of the public schools)
• 20 Postulates
• Sufficient Resources
• Leadership
• Connections with the ecology of schooling --
  community and context

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Strategy
• Simultaneous Renewal of schools and the education
  of educators
• Systematic implementation of DDAE
• Ongoing assessment of implementation

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AED Who Does This Work?
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Participants
• Institute for Educational Inquiry
• Center for Educational Renewal
• National Network for Educational Renewal
• League of Small Democratic Schools

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Institute for Educational Inquiry
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Institute for Educational Inquiry
A small non-profit organization whose aim is to
deepen understanding of and support action toward
the AEDs implementation.
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
The National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
A national membership network of
school-university partnerships whose shared
mission is to implement the AED.
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
League of Small Democratic Schools
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
League of Small Democratic Schools
14 small elementary and secondary schools
together for professional development and support
for their work
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy
The National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
National Network for Educational Renewal
Institute for Educational Inquiry
League of Small Democratic Schools
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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Related Programs
• (Current)
• Developing Networks of Responsibility to Educate
  Americas Youth
• Journalism, Education, and the Public Good

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Agenda for Education in a Democracy

• Leadership and Inquiry Programs
• (Recent and Current)
• Sustaining Simultaneous Renewal
• Initiating Simultaneous Renewal
• Summer Symposium
• Forum for Educational Leadership
• Examining The Role of Hybrid Educators

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Setting Renewal Sessions Sponsored by the IEI,
the NNER and local settings
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Goals
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• To provide renewal of the concepts for those
  familiar with the AED
• To prepare a cadre of people who can carry out
  these sessions in the future
• To give us feedback to refine the curriculum
• To increase understanding of the AED among those
  new to settings

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Conversation Norms

• Pursue LEARNING
• What is said here stays here. What is learned
  hear is shared with others.
• Plan for Actionthe goal is to make the Agenda
  alive and visible
• Practice CIVITAS
• Dont offend and dont be offended.
• Say ouch when something hurts

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Conversation Norms

• Take TIME
• Accept this gift of time to reflect
• Slow Down
• Value VOICES
• Everyone listens
• Everyone shares
• One Voice at a Time
• No side conversations
• Probe for understanding

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Conversation Norms

• What do we do when faced with tough problems? We
  talk. But for some, talk gets in the way of
  expediency . . . But in truth, we would be far
  better advised to sit down and talkand talk
  seriously, honestly, caringly. (Pg. 154)

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