Educating tomorrow's valuable citizen / edited by Joan N. Burstyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burstyn, Joan N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civics--Study and teaching--United States.

Civics.

Citizenship--Study and teaching--United States.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 229 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.

Summary:

The authors discuss the dilemmas that face those who would educate tomorrow's valuable citizens and describe the day-to-day commitment needed to maintain a community. Important questions are asked: How do our public schools educate children to become members of our particular "public?" What problems face citizens of a democracy committed to both pluralism and equity? How has the meaning of citizenship changed as our society has evolved? In a world made interdependent through technology, how can one best define citizenship? The book's various perspectives provide guidelines for action through examples of current programs, and the reader is invited to join new forums to discuss questions raised--forums that allow for heated, but civil, disagreement. Only by engaging in such discussions can a public consensus be reached on the best ways to educate for tomorrow. Contributors include John Covaleskie, Ellen Giarelli, James Giarelli, Jerilyn Fay Kelle, Thomas Mauhs-Pugh, Barbara McEwan, Mary B. Stanley, Donald Warren, and Zeus Yiamouyiannis. Joan N. Burstyn is Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education and of History at Syracuse University. She is the author of Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood , as well as two books of poetry, Song Cycle and Waiting for the Lame Horse , and is the editor of Preparation for Life?: The Paradox of Education in the Late Twentieth Century and Desktop Publishing in the University .

Contents:

Contents

1. "What we call the beginning is often the end …" by Joan N. Burstyn

2. Educating for Public and Private Life: Beyond the False Dilemma by James M. Giarelli

3. Developing the Good Person: The Role of Local Publics by Thomas Mauhs-Pugh

4. To Illuminate or Indoctrinate: Education for Participatory Democracy by Jerilyn Fay Kelle

5. Subverting the Capitalist Model for Education: What Does It Mean to Educate Children to be Valuable Members of a Valuable Society? by Zeus Yiamouyiannis

6. Assaulting the Last Bastions of Authoritarianism: Democratic Education Meets Classroom Discipline by Barbara McEwan

7. Practice Makes Perfect: Civic Education by Precept and Example by Donald Warren

8. Preparing Citizens for a Decent Society: Educating for Virtue by John Covaleskie

9. Service Learning as Civic Education: Difference, Culture War, and the Material Basis of a Good Life by Mary B. Stanley

10. Meeting the Demands of Postmodern Society by Joan N. Burstyn

11. "The end is where we start from …" by Joan N. Burstyn

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7914-9809-3

0-585-03649-7

OCLC:

42330376