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Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship
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2012
Summary
The Founders of this nation believed that the government they were creating required a civically educated populace. Such an education aimed to cultivate enlightened, informed, and vigilant citizens who could perpetuate and improve the nation. Unfortunately, America’s contemporary youth seem to lack adequate opportunities, if not also the ability or will, to critically examine the foundations of this nation. An even larger problem is an increasing ambivalence toward education in general. Stepping into this void is a diverse group of educators, intellectuals, and businesspeople, brought together in Civic Education and the Future of American Citizenship to grapple with the issue of civic illiteracy and its consequences. The essays, edited by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Jonathan W. White, force us to not only reexamine the goals of civic education in America but also those of liberal education more broadly.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7056-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7058-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
166
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter One: The Inspiring Idea of the Common School No access
Chapter Two: Memory and Sacrifice in the Formation of Civic Consciousness No access
Chapter Three: Polishing Barbarous Mores No access
Chapter Four: American Amnesia No access
Chapter Five: The Peer Bubble No access
Chapter Six: Voter Beware No access
Chapter Seven: Majoring in Servitude No access
Chapter Eight: Education to What End—Vocation or Virtue? No access
Chapter Nine: “Reflection and Choice” No access
Afterword No access Pages 151 - 156
Index No access Pages 157 - 162
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 163 - 166
