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Autore: | Macedo Stephen <1957-> |
Titolo: | Diversity and distrust [[electronic resource] ] : civic education in a multicultural democracy / / Stephen Macedo |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 343 p.) |
Disciplina: | 371.010973 |
Soggetto topico: | Public schools - United States |
Moral education - United States | |
Citizenship - Study and teaching - United States | |
Liberalism - United States | |
Multiculturalism - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Diversity and distrust |
ISBN: | 0-674-04040-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454570303321 |
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