Diversity and Distrust Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy

Name: Diversity and Distrust Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy
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ISBN: 9780674011236

ISBN-10: 0674011236

ISBN-13: 9780674011236

Edition: 2000

Authors: Stephen Macedo

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Stephen Macedo 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.

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.09" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Place of Diversity



Diversity Ascendant



Public Schooling and American Citizenship



Civic Anxieties



Civic Excess and Reaction



The Decline of the Common School Idea



Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism



Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism



Multiculturalism and the Religious Right



Diversity and the Problem of Justification



The Mirage of Perfect Fairness



Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism



School Reform and Civic Education



Civic Purposes and Public Schools



The Case for Civically Minded School Reform


Conclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations


Notes


Index