Democracy, Justice, and Education

Democracy, justice, and education are core ideals that define public discourse and scholarship about schooling. Exploration of these ideals from philosophical and practical perspective in context of century-old community schools movement. Global pandemic has renewed public interest in community schools framed as equity-focused anti-poverty reform to provide integrated social supports such as health, nutrition, and after-school programs. Movement also has strong democratic roots tied to local control, collective problem solving, and community-based learning—challenging ideas about who has power, how young people learn, and how teachers teach. Inquiry grounded in experience of two UCLA community schools as well as five other community school sites chosen by students. Examination of whether and how these schools are sites of social transformation by investigating contexts, theories, and practices that define their work.

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