1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454570303321

Autore

Macedo Stephen <1957->

Titolo

Diversity and distrust [[electronic resource] ] : civic education in a multicultural democracy / / Stephen Macedo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-674-04040-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 343 p.)

Disciplina

371.010973

Soggetti

Public schools - United States

Moral education - United States

Citizenship - Study and teaching - United States

Liberalism - United States

Multiculturalism - 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. [281]-336) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Place of Diversity -- 1. Diversity Ascendant -- I Public Schooling and American Citizenship -- Introduction -- 2. Civic Anxieties -- 3. Civic Excess and Reaction -- 4. The Decline of the Common School Idea -- 5. Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism -- II Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism -- 6. Multiculturalism and the Religious Right -- 7. Diversity and the Problem of Justification -- 8. The Mirage of Perfect Fairness -- 9. Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism -- III School Reform and Civic Education -- 10. Civic Purposes and Public Schools -- 11. The Case for Civically Minded School Reform -- Conclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Diversity and Distrust aims to provide an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451254403321

Autore

Smith Mick <1961-, >

Titolo

The ethics of tourism development / / Mick Smith and Rosaleen Duffy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-299-14671-6

1-134-50012-2

0-415-26685-8

1-280-07324-1

0-203-63432-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility

Altri autori (Persone)

DuffyRosaleen

Disciplina

174/.991

Soggetti

Tourism - Social aspects

Tourism - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-189) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ethical values; The virtues of travel and the virtuous traveller; The greatest happiness is to travel?; Rights and codes of practice; From social justice to an ethics of care; Authenticity and the ethics of tourism; Ethics and sustainable tourism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Draws upon a variety of important philosophical traditions to develop an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context.