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Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracyreviewed by Horace R. Hall - August 10, 2006 Title: Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy Author(s): Archon Fung Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton ISBN: 0691126089, Pages: 306, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com In Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy, Archon Fung critically examines the functionality of participatory democracy as a school-reform strategy. Using six case studies based in various Chicago neighborhoods, Fung offers clear and viable examples of what community governance looks like beyond the abstract and theoretical. Initiated in 1996, Fungs research incorporates an abundance of quantitative data along with the voices of community constituentsparents, teachers, principals, and policewho struggle collectively to make democracy a living practice. This book parallels other featured works by Fung which include: Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It and Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance. The work Fung presents makes a distinctive contribution to the existent research literature and becomes part of authentic and evocative discussions on group dialogue and civic engagement also explored by such scholars as Noam Chomsky, John Gastil, A. S. Neill,... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Horace Hall
DePaul University E-mail Author HORACE R. HALL is Assistant Professor of Education at DePaul University in the area of Educational Policy Studies and Research. Dr. Hall is also the founder and co-director of a youth mentoring program entitled, R.E.A.L. (Respect, Excellence, Attitude, and Leadership). His most recent publication, Mentoring Young Men of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American and Latino Students (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) is based on his community work in the R.E.A.L. program and explores the use of school-based mentoring in the lives of adolescent males of color.
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