THE POSSIBILITY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AN INSTRUMENTALIST AGE

  1. Chris Higgins*

Article first published online: 4 AUG 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2011.00414.x

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Educational Theory

Educational Theory

Volume 61, Issue 4, pages 451–466, August 2011

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Higgins, C. (2011), THE POSSIBILITY OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AN INSTRUMENTALIST AGE. Educational Theory, 61: 451–466. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2011.00414.x

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  1. Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

*CHRIS HIGGINS is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1310 S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820; e-mail <crh4@illinois.edu>. His scholarship concerns the ethical dimensions of teacher identity, motivation, and development; transformative dialogue and the teacher-student relationship; and humanistic approaches to teaching, teacher education, and educational research.

  1. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK René Arcilla and Nicholas Burbules for their support of this project in its early stages. My ideas about the public and the public school have developed in conversation with Walter Feinberg, Kathleen Knight Abowitz, and Chris Lubienski. I would also like to thank the students in my Spring 2010 seminar on What Makes a Public School Public? I presented a version of part of this argument at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Though I have no doubt failed to address many of their concerns, I am grateful to the participants of the 2010 Educational Theory Summer Institute for their critical response to an earlier version of this essay. On behalf of everyone in this issue, I would like to thank Joyce Atkinson for her skill and patience as an editor. Finally, thanks as always to Jennifer Burns for editing, conversation, and support.

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