A. Belden Fields is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana. He is the author of Trotskyism and Maoism: Theory and Practice in France and the United States and Student Politics in France: A Study of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France. >Walter Feinberg is Professor of the Philosophy of Education at the University of Illinois, Champaign. He is the author of Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference and On Higher Ground: Education and the Case for Affirmative Action.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One. Democracy in Small Places
Chapter Two. A Failed Attempt
Chapter Three. Engaging in Democratic Discourse Democratically (with Norman Denzin)
Chapter Four. Race and School in Ed City (with Norman Denzin)
Chapter Five. The PED¿s Challenge to Traditional Authority: The School Board
Chapter Six. The Meeting of Bureaucratic and Dialogical Authority: The District Committee
Chapter Seven. Cooperation and Co-optation
Chapter Eight. Conclusion: Competing Conceptions of Democratic Education and Theory
References
Index