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Private Instincts and Public Ideals

Parents' Stories of Navigating P-12 Education

Buch | Hardcover

171 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4089-3 (ISBN)

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All parents and guardians want the absolute best for their children with a consistency and intensity that is instinctual. Schooling decisions loom large in parents' stories, triggering not only excitement and hope but also tension and stress. Almost all self-help books for parents navigating school attendance and program enrollment decisions focus only on the child's own flourishing, with little acknowledgment that there could ever be trade-offs where one family's choices affect other families, particularly families with fewer options. Some parents, however, are more morally ambitious and public ideals like equal opportunity and the democratic benefits of diverse schools – benefits for others that often become mutual – profoundly shape their approach to choosing schools. In this exciting collection of essays, thirteen conscientious but all-too-human parents share their stories and reflections with attention to their own desired outcomes but also the flourishing of others. As you engage these parents' stories, you might find your own values about education reflected back in ways that challenge and enrich your parenting journey.

Gregory J. Fritzberg was a youth minister and a public school teacher in the USA prior to earning a PhD in educational philosophy and serving twenty-seven years as a professor of education. For most of these years, Greg ran funded programs providing university-educated tutors for Seattle Public Schools. He is the author of In the Shadow of "Excellence": Recovering a Vision of Educational Opportunity for All and many scholarly articles and popular press essays. Greg and his wife have raised, educated, and advocated for their two now grown children, who both attended local public elementary and middle schools before their paths diverged. Their daughter graduated from a Catholic all-girls high school and their son from his neighborhood public high school. Both children graduated from public universities in Washington state.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	1-0364-4089-3 / 1036440893
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4089-3 / 9781036440893
Zustand	Neuware