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Moral and Political Education : NOMOS XLIII
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What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what is the proper balance between public and private...
What are the proper aims of education in a liberal democracy? Given the deep disagreement about moral and religious values in modern societies, what is the proper balance between public and private claimants to educational authority? Should parents be given greater control over their children's formal education? Are today's public schools promoting a culture of rootless individualism? Do we increasingly resort to prisons and punishment instead of schooling and moral education to control young people? And what, finally, should be the fate of the great project of racially integrated schooling: a.
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- New York : NYU Press, 2001
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- 1 online resource (496 pages)
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- 9780814764268, 0814764266, 9780814756751
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- ocn779828228
- Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: DEBATING DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION; 1. Civic Minimalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Patriotism:Where Does Democratic Education Stand in Relationto Each?; 2. How Do Liberal Democracies Teach Values?; 3. Education Disestablishment: Why Democratic ValuesAre Ill-Served by Democratic Control of Schooling; 4. Pluralism and Democratic Education: Stopping Shortby Stopping with Schools; 5. Can Publicly Funded Schools Legitimately TeachValues in a Constitutional Democracy? A Reply toMcConnell and Eisgruber
- PART II: NEUTRALITY, INDIVIDUAL AUTONOMY, AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM6. Civic Education and Ethical Subservience: From Mozertto Santa Fe and Beyond; 7. Liberalism, Neutrality, and Education; 8. School Vouchers, Separation of Church and State, andPersonal Autonomy; 9. Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority overEducation: The Case of Homeschooling; 10. Changing the Conversation about Children'sEducation; PART III: PRISONS, PUNISHMENT, ANDMORAL EDUCATION; 11. Moral Education and Juvenile Crime; PART IV: EDUCATION AND THE IDEAL OF RACIALINTEGRATION: RENEWAL OR RETREAT?
- 12. The Promise of Racial Integration in aMulticultural Age13. Individual Experience and Social Policy:Thinking Practically about Overcoming Racial andEthnic Prejudice; 14. Civic Virtue, Cultural Bounty: The Case forEthnoracial Diversity; 15. The Broken Promise of Racial Integration; Index