Democratic transformations : eight conflicts in the negotiation of American identity / Kerry T. Burch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burch, Kerry T., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Democracy--Study and teaching.

United States.

Democracy--Study and teaching--United States.

Democracy.

Civics--Study and teaching--United States.

Civics.

Civics--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

xxi, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Eight conflicts in the negotiation of American identity

8 conflicts in the negotiation of American identity

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2012]

Summary:

What will it take for the American people to enact a more democratic version of themselves? How to better educate democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these crucial predicaments, this book proposes that instead of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of pedagogical opportunity. Kerry Burch revives eight fundamental pieces of political public rhetoric into living artifacts, into provocative instruments of democratic pedagogy. Burch invites readers to encounter the fertile contradictions pulsating at the core of American identity, transforming this conflicted symbolic terrain into a site of pedagogical analysis and development.

Contents:

The pursuit of happiness

The tyranny of the majority

Four score and seven years ago

Forty acres and a mule

The moral equivalent of war

The business of America is business

The military-industrial complex

The personal is political

Epilogue : educating the souls of democratic folk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-187) and index.

ISBN:

9781441112132

1441112138

9781441173782

1441173781

OCLC:

813174183