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Macedo Stephen <1957-> |
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Titolo |
Diversity and distrust [[electronic resource] ] : civic education in a multicultural democracy / / Stephen Macedo |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 343 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public schools - United States |
Moral education - United States |
Citizenship - Study and teaching - United States |
Liberalism - United States |
Multiculturalism - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-336) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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