The Last Best Hope

A Democracy Reader
Herausgeber: Goodlad, Stephen John

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive anthology addresses some of the most important issues confronting democracy in the twenty-first century. For instance, What are the conditions necessary for democracy to exist and flourish? Is democracy a sustainable ideal? What does individual freedom mean in a democracy? What is the relationship between democracy and morality? What roles does or should education play in a democratic society

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780787956813
• ISBN-10: 0787956813
• Artikelnr.: 22168098

Autorenporträt

STEPHEN JOHN GOODLAD is a writer and philosopher whose interests center on the relationships between environmentalism, ecology, and democracy and, in turn, the implications of those relationships for education and schooling.

Inhaltsangabe

Source Texts.
Introduction (S. Goodlad).
Acknowledgements.
The Editor
WHY DEMOCRACY?
Democracy (N. Postman).
An Aristocracy of Everyone (B. Barber).
CONCEPTS AND COMPLEXITIES.
What Makes Democracy Work? (R. Putnam).
The Democratic Virtues (C. Lummis).
Was Democracy Just a Moment? (R. Kaplan).
CITIZENSHIP AND CHARACTER.
The Masses in Representative Democracy (M. Oakeshott)
Reorientation in Education (B. Bode).
The Education of Character (M. Buber).
DEMOCRACY AND ITS TROUBLES.
Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order (N. Chomsky).
Law and Justice (H. Zinn).
Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust (W. Berry).
THE PUBLIC AND THE PERSONAL.
Democracy and Human Nature (J. Dewey).
Egalitarian Solidarity (P. Green).
Moral Imagination (M. Johnson).
EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
How Colleges of Education Package the Myth of Modernity (C. Bowers).
Democratic Education in Difficult Times (A. Gutmann).
What Is Education For? (D. Orr).
HUMAN POTENTIAL AND DEMOCRACY'S FUTURE.
The Domain of the Future (M. Csikszentmihalyi).
Practical Utopianism (M. Midgley).
Index.