Diversity and distrust [[electronic resource] ] : civic education in a multicultural democracy / / Stephen Macedo

• Autore: Macedo Stephen <1957->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II