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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.