1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451812003321

Autore

Salomone Rosemary C

Titolo

Visions of schooling [[electronic resource] ] : conscience, community, and common education / / Rosemary C. Salomone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, Conn., : Yale University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-281-72948-5

9786611729486

0-300-12915-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Disciplina

371.19/0973

Soggetti

School choice - United States

Community and school - United States

Education - Curricula - United States

Moral education - United States

Education and state - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.273-315) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Common School: Past as Prologue -- 3. From Children's Rights to Parents' Rights -- 4. The Supreme Court as Schoolmaster -- 5. Voices of Dissent -- 6. Struggling with Satan -- 7. Education for Democratic Citizenship -- 8. Re-Envisioning Common Education -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are challenging not only the mission, content, and structure of mass compulsory schooling but also its underlying premise-that the values promoted through public education are neutral and therefore acceptable to any reasonable person. In this important book, Rosemary Salomone sets aside the ideological and inflammatory rhetoric that surrounds today's debates over educational values and family choice. She offers instead a fair-minded examination of education for democratic citizenship in a society that values freedom of conscience



and religious pluralism. And she proposes a balanced course of action that redefines but does not sever the relationship between education and the state. Salomone demonstrates how contemporary conflicts are the product of past educational and social movements. She lays bare some of the myths that support the current government monopoly over education and reveals how it privileges those of economic means. Through a detailed case study of recent controversy in a suburban New York school district, the author explores the legal and policy issues that arise when widely disparate world views stand in the way of political compromise on educational materials, techniques, and programs. Salomone builds a case for educational governance that places the developmental needs of the child at the center of family autonomy. She advances a plan that respects diverse values and visions of schooling while preserving the core commitments that bind our nation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450932603321

Titolo

The new Posidippus [[electronic resource] ] : a Hellenistic poetry book / / edited by Kathryn Gutzwiller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-34587-3

9786611345877

0-19-151490-X

1-4294-2185-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Posidippus, of Pella,  <b. ca. 310 B.C.>

GutzwillerKathryn J

Disciplina

881/.01

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume stems from a conference on the 'The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book' held at Cincinnati on 7-9 November 2002"--Acknowledgements.

Includes "... a translation of Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia, edited by C. Austin and G. Bastianini (Milan, 2002)"--P. [17].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.



Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The Poems of Posidippus; PART I: PAPYRUS ROLLS, READERS, AND EDITORS; PART II: A BOOK IN SECTIONS; PART III: POSIDIPPUS IN A PTOLEMAIC CONTEXT; PART IV: A HELLENISTIC BOOK AND ITS LITERARY CONTEXT; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

From an Egyptian mummy has come an exciting discovery of previously unknown Greek literature. The newly-discovered papyrus containing over 100 epigrams by the Hellenistic poet Posidippus is artefactually the earliest known Greek poetry book. This volume contains a new translation of Posidippus' poetry as well as essays about the papyrus by experts in the fields of papyrology, Greek and Roman literature, Ptolemaic history, and visual culture. - ;The Milan Papyrus ( P. Mil. Volg. VIII. 309), containing a collection of epigrams apparently all by Posidippus of Pella, provides one of the most excit