Educating the democratic mind /

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Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
Description:xiii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series, democracy and education
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2412026
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Other authors / contributors:Parker, Walter.
ISBN:0791427072 (hc : acid-free paper)
0791427080 (pb : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:There can be no democracy without democrats, and democrats are made, not born. This volume features sixteen provocative essays, old and new, on the concern to educate young people for that loosely-defined genre of political and social life called democracy. It is an historical collection on the central question of our era: How and what might children be taught so that they respond well and creatively to the demands of an increasingly diverse society that is organized under and struggling, on and off, to realize the democratic ideal? How are we to educate children to embrace difference and maintain a common life? Contributors include Walter C. Parker, Ann V. Angell, James A. Banks, Jane Bernard-Powers, Carole L. Hahn, David Mathews, William B. Stanley, and James Anthony Whitson.
Physical Description:xiii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0791427072
0791427080