LEADER 04255nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910778944903321 005 20230126202824.0 010 $a0-674-06261-2 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674062610 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087236 035 $a(OCoLC)776587011 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10531199 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000598878 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11369820 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000598878 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596165 035 $a(PQKB)10465246 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301042 035 $a(DE-B1597)178267 035 $a(OCoLC)979575154 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674062610 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531199 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087236 100 $a20110602d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe crucible of consent$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican child rearing and the forging of liberal society /$fJames E. Block 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (462 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05194-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: is consent credible? -- The hidden dynamic of childhood consent -- Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure -- Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of -- Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen -- Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age -- Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society. 330 $aA democratic government requires the consent of its citizens. But how is that consent formed? Why should free people submit to any rule? Pursuing this question to its source for the first time, The Crucible of Consent argues that the explanation is to be found in the nursery and the schoolroom. Only in the receptive and less visible realms of childhood and youth could the necessary synthesis of self-direction and integrative social conduct-so contradictory in logic yet so functional in practice-be established without provoking reservation or resistance.From the early postrevolutionary republic, two liberal child-rearing institutions-the family and schooling-took on a responsibility crucial to the growing nation: to produce the willing and seemingly self-initiated conformability on which the society's claim of freedom and demand for order depended. Developing the institutional mechanisms for generating early consent required the constant transformation of child-rearing theory and practice over the course of the nineteenth century. By exploring the systematic reframing of relations between generations that resulted, this book offers new insight into the consenting citizenry at the foundation of liberal society, the novel domestic and educational structures that made it possible, and the unprecedented role created for the young in the modern world. 606 $aChildren and politics$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aChild rearing$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States 606 $aCitizenship$zUnited States 606 $aConsensus (Social sciences) 606 $aAgent (Philosophy) 615 0$aChildren and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aChild rearing$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aLiberalism 615 0$aCitizenship 615 0$aConsensus (Social sciences) 615 0$aAgent (Philosophy) 676 $a649/.10973 700 $aBlock$b James E$0245468 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778944903321 996 $aThe crucible of consent$93851010 997 $aUNINA