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- Title
Confronting Power: Success Isn't Everything--But It's Not Nothing Either: A Response to: "Beyond the Catch-22 of School-Based Social Action Programs: Toward a More Pragmatic Approach for Dealing with Power".
- Authors
Westheimer, Joel
- Abstract
Fehrman and Schutz contend that the fine balance between having students experience real-world obstacles to social change and having them learn how to navigate around those obstacles can be achieved by having adults both pre-select community action projects that are both possible and meaningful to ensure a modicum of success, and jump in and redirect wayward efforts when necessary to get them back on a trajectory aimed at a positive outcome. I agree. I also suggest that other factors are significant as well, namely the purposeful nurturing of a sense of community and hopefulness. Finally, I point out that adult intervention and democratic teaching are in no way mutually exclusive, especially by any standard John Dewey might have suggested.
- Subjects
STUDENT activism; SOCIAL action; STUDENT participation in administration; COMMUNITY involvement; EXPERIENTIAL learning; COMMUNITY services; PRAGMATISM; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Democracy & Education, 2011, Vol 19, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1085-3545
- Publication type
Article