Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge

List of contents

Introduction -- Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge: Toward a Socialist Theory of Education -- The Education of Henry Adams and the Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: A Case Study -- A Public Philosophy? Pragmatism and Public Knowledge -- Public Knowledge and the Paradox of Democratic Education -- Public Intellectuals and Public Knowledge -- Literacy for What? Critical Literacy and the Power of Public Knowledge -- Framing the Question of Freedom: Public Knowledge in Practice

Summary

Generously conceived, clearly argued, and gracefully written, Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge is important reading not just for students of democracy and of education but for all those concerned with the future of American education.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth A. Kelly, Kelly Elizabeth A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367004897
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00489-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government