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- Title: Chapter 11: the Story Behind the Presentation: Forrest Gump and Uncloistered Scholarship (Part II) (Essay)
- Author : Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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This past summer, I was reading the book Dewey's Dream; Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (Benson, Harkavy & Puckett, 2007). At the same time, an old colleague Tony was visiting me at our family home in Vermont. While out fishing, we reminisced about our first years together at Ohio State University and then our coincidental arrival at the University of Georgia (UGA). After 15 years at Georgia, he left for a Big Ten School and I remained for another 10 years (with a brief but valuable interlude at Texas State University). While fishing, Tony and I discussed in a joking manner the question of what our respective professional work had amounted to in this later stage in our careers. Days after the successful fishing expedition, I took the question as a focus point in developing a presentation titled Toggling Between Democracy and Education that I first gave at the 2007 AATC conference and then later at the John Dewey symposium at the American Educational Research Association on Uncloistered Scholarship and Community--School Engagement (Glickman, 2008). The following is my story. Ever since I served in the Teacher Corps in 1968 during the integration of schools in the rural south, I have been drawn to the role of education in a democracy. Later as a school principal in New Hampshire, our school community worked on the concept of democracy as central to our curriculum and, still later, with my university appointment in 1979, I and colleagues created a network of K-12 public schools in Georgia with this same emphasis. The network grew to over 100 schools and lasted for more than 15 years. We became partners with other major networks including the Coalition of Essential Schools, The Accelerated Schools, The Basic Schools, and The Democratic School Network.