http://www.edwize.org/whos-afraid-of-teacher-voice-the-continuing-saga Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.edwize.org/whos-afraid-of-teacher-voice-the-continuing-saga/comment-page-1#comment-5179 Bild Mon, 08 May 2006 20:17:41 +0000 http://edwize.org/whos-afraid-of-teacher-voice-the-continuing-saga#comment-5179 In this series of discussions, I do not find the running analogy between government and schooling to be completely persuasive. (The analogy which is suggested by "democracy," "House of Commons," etc.) I.e. probably more people would agree that the main goal of government is to provide justice, peace, security (health, opportunity... etc.) to its citizens, than that the main goal of a school is to provide those things to its workers. Do you claim that the success of a school should be judged by the degree to which its policies express the democratically ratified views of its workers? Or would you judge the success of a hospital, library, museum, recreation center... by this standard? In this series of discussions, I do not find the running analogy between government and schooling to be completely persuasive. (The analogy which is suggested by “democracy,” “House of Commons,” etc.) I.e. probably more people would agree that the main goal of government is to provide justice, peace, security (health, opportunity… etc.) to its citizens, than that the main goal of a school is to provide those things to its workers. Do you claim that the success of a school should be judged by the degree to which its policies express the democratically ratified views of its workers? Or would you judge the success of a hospital, library, museum, recreation center… by this standard?

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