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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: Schools as Laboratories of Democracy
  • Part 1. Early Years
  • 1. The Democratic Conception in Education
  • 2. Reconstructing the Curriculum
  • 3. An Experiment in Teaching Resistance to Propaganda
  • 4. Teaching in Democratic and Authoritarian States
  • Part 2. Middle Years
  • 5. Rational Inquiry on Society's Closed Areas
  • 6. Decision Making
  • 7. Teaching Strategies and Thought Processes
  • 8. Using a Jurisprudential Framework in the Teaching of Public Issues
  • Part 3. Recent Years
  • 9. The Hidden Curriculum and the Nature of Conflict
  • 10. Moral Reasoning
  • 11. Skills in Citizen Action
  • 12. History's Role in Civic Education: The Precondition for Political Intelligence
  • Part 4. Reflections & Possibilities - New Works
  • 13. Reviewing and Previewing Civics
  • 14. The "Woman Question" in Citizenship Education
  • 15. "Re-Minding" Education for Democracy
  • 16. Global Perspectives
  • Contributors of New Works
  • Index