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CHAPTER 5- Values and Idealogy

Dr. Dan Bertrand LEEA 554. CHAPTER 5- Values and Idealogy . Bracey Chapters 1 & 2 Guest Speaker- Laurel DiPreima- IASB, Policy Consultant Chapter 5- Values and Ideology Bracey Chapters 3 & 4 Chapter6- Major Educator Policy Actors Quail Email- Identify applicable policies

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CHAPTER 5- Values and Idealogy

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  1. Dr. Dan Bertrand LEEA 554 CHAPTER 5- Values and Idealogy

  2. Bracey Chapters 1 & 2 Guest Speaker- Laurel DiPreima- IASB, Policy Consultant Chapter 5- Values and Ideology Bracey Chapters 3 & 4 Chapter6- Major Educator Policy Actors Quail Email- Identify applicable policies Policy Manual discussion TODAY’s AGENDA

  3. What values shape educational policy? How do these values relate to major US political ideologies? How can educational leaders identify the values and ideology positions behind policy? Focus Questions

  4. They shape the way people define policy problems. They constrain people’s ability to perceive possible solutions to policy problems. The Importance of Ideas

  5. Self – Interest General Social Values Democratic Values Economic Values BASIC VALUES IN U.S. POLITICS

  6. Economic Interests- Tax breaks, salary increases, increased demand for services, increased number of jobs in a department, shifting costs to another department. • Ask who benefits or is penalized economically • Power- new legal rights, representation, access to information or channels of communication, the right to serve long or indefinite terms, extension of jurisdiction and more job security. • Ask who gains power or who loses power Self- Interest

  7. Order- People want to be safe from physical harm and to have their property secure. • Individualism- • People should take initiative to advance their own economic success. (Utilitarian) • Freedom to express oneself with minimal restraint. (Expressive) General Social Values

  8. Liberty- freedom, independence, choice • Equality- All people are entitled to equal standing before the law and equal opportunity. • Includes political, economic equality and equality of opportunity and results • Fraternity- ability to perceive others as brothers and sisters, a sense of responsibility for them that one can turn to them for help. Democratic Values

  9. Efficiency- obtaining the best possible return on an investment. Economic Growth- increasing production, stimulating domestic consumption, expanding foreign trade. Quality- quality education stimulates creativity and autonomous learning. Economic Values

  10. Conflicts involving freedom • Freedom reduces order. • Freedom to make choices reduces efficiency. • Freedom does not lead to equality. • Conflicts involving efficiency • Greater efficiency comes at the cost of equality. (market competition) • The cost of quality undermines the pursuit of efficiency. • Overemphasis in efficiency weakens fraternity. Values Interacting with Each Other

  11. “A fairly coherent set of values and beliefs about the way the social, economic and political systems should be organized and operated.” • Major U.S. Ideologies • Business Conservatism • human beings are purely motivated by self- interest. • The economy depends on focusing on independent economic success. • Vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, accountability, higher standards IDEOLOGY

  12. Religious Conservatism • Cultural war against the forces of moral corruption to gain the country back to God. • Their highest value if order, imposing it by law. • Constitutional school prayer, oppose sex and drug education, oppose multi-cultural education. • Liberalism- The highest values are equality and fraternity. • For neo-liberals- the root of most problems is slow economic growth and growing disunity. IDEOLOGIES

  13. Left-wing Extremists- Blame social ills on major corporations, the military, technology and private property. • Right-wing Extremists-blame social ills on racial, ethnic or religious minority groups. • Restrict the rights of these groups, and try to restore the White Christian nation. • Highest values are order and fraternity within their own group. IDEOLOGIES

  14. School administrators are caught between the Right and the Left. Recognizing an ideological conflict: people become distressed, faulty communication, tendency to explain away inconsistencies, incongruence and practical failings of their ideology. Obtaining information about an ideological issue: give everyone an opportunity to speak, identify points of compromise. Opening the democratic process; analyze, discuss and include different ideologies. School Leaders Caught in Ideological Cross Fire

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