| Democratic Education Stretched Thin: How Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal Contributor(s): Blacker, David J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791469662 ISBN-13: 9780791469668 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Argues that the complexity of out pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving |
| Dewey: 370.1 |
| LCCN: 2006004611 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Philosophy of Education |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.49" W x 8.97" (0.79 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on contemporary political theorists, including Michael Walzer and John Rawls, and also on philosophers such as Descartes and Hume, David J. Blacker addresses this question, outlining the dispute between orthodoxy and proceduralism, and proposing a new approach of liberal contextualism to resolve the impasse and enrich our conception of democratic education. He discusses a wide range of controversies surrounding students' constitutional rights, religion in public schools, special education, civic and moral education, sex education, students' citizenship status, and educational accountability, and argues for change at both the institutional and personal levels. He concludes that democratic education must be allowed to connect with how individuals understand the ultimate aims and purposes of their lives. |