Education for Citizenship - Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning

This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic process.

About the author

Grant Reeher is associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Joseph Cammarano is assistant professor of political science at Providence College.

Summary

This volume addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining "habits of the heart".

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin R. Barber
• Assisted by: Joseph Cammarano (Editor), Cammarano Joseph (Editor), Grant Reeher (Editor), Reeher Grant (Editor), Benjamin R. Barber (Foreword)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.1997
• EAN: 9780847683659
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8365-9
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 526 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; EDUCATION / General, Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Political structures / systems: democracy, Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy