LEADER 04495nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910814419103321 005 20230613234157.0 010 $a0-674-04040-6 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674040403 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786777 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050786 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000140230 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11136635 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000140230 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030024 035 $a(PQKB)11066126 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300350 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315855 035 $a(OCoLC)923110755 035 $a(DE-B1597)574592 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674040403 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300350 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786777 100 $a19990720d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDiversity and distrust $ecivic education in a multicultural democracy /$fStephen Macedo 210 1$aCambridge, Mass. :$cHarvard University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-21311-4 311 0 $a0-674-01123-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [281]-336) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: The Place of Diversity --$t1. Diversity Ascendant --$tI Public Schooling and American Citizenship --$tIntroduction --$t2. Civic Anxieties --$t3. Civic Excess and Reaction --$t4. The Decline of the Common School Idea --$t5. Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism --$tII Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism --$t6. Multiculturalism and the Religious Right --$t7. Diversity and the Problem of Justification --$t8. The Mirage of Perfect Fairness --$t9. Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism --$tIII School Reform and Civic Education --$t10. Civic Purposes and Public Schools --$t11. The Case for Civically Minded School Reform --$tConclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aDiversity 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. 330 $aWhat should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is it more important to foster shared political values and civic virtues? Stephen Macedo believes that diversity should usually, but not always, be highly valued. We must remember, he insists, that many forms of social and religious diversity are at odds with basic commitments to liberty, equality, and civic flourishing. Liberalism has an important but neglected civic dimension, he argues, and liberal democrats must take care to promote not only well-ordered institutions but also well-ordered citizens. Macedo shows that this responsibility is incompatible with a neutral or hands-off stance toward diversity in general or toward the education of children in particular. Extending the ideas of John Rawls, he defends a "civic liberalism" that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities. Macedo's tough-minded liberal agenda for civic education offers a fundamental challenge to free market libertarians, the religious right, parental rights activists, postmodernists, and many of those who call themselves multiculturalists. This book will become an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism. 606 $aPublic schools$zUnited States 606 $aMoral education$zUnited States 606 $aCitizenship$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States 606 $aMulticulturalism$zUnited States 615 0$aPublic schools 615 0$aMoral education 615 0$aCitizenship$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aLiberalism 615 0$aMulticulturalism 676 $a371.010973 700 $aMacedo$b Stephen$f1957-$0568415 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814419103321 996 $aDiversity and distrust$94127395 997 $aUNINA