Susan E. RayEDU 7801
Politics in Education
Professor Frank Smith, Ed.D. Summer 2004
to negotiate the politics of education."
Course Description: Examination and analysis of the political aspects of education in large cities and suburbs in a period of declining enrollments and resources; analysis of the conflicting political demands by community groups, students, ethnic minorities, and organized teacher and changing patterns.
Required Course Reading:
Problematizing the basic concepts of policy analysis, this book details the role of struggle in defining ideas like equity, efficiency, liberty, and fairness. Likewise, the tools of policy making—incentives, rules, persuasion, legal protections, and the reorganization of authority—are recast as complex social processes. Stone argues that, at every stage and on every level, values shape policy design and implementation.
Farmingville Day Laborers: A Political Issue (Paper)
Conceptual Model of Stone's Theory: Etched in Stone
Measuring Social Capital: A web site
Paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Beyond this course I was inspired to read several books dealing in educational politics:
