Making Good Citizens - Education and Civil Society

In this book leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Contributors such as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nathan Glazer, Robert Putnam, Jack Rakove, and Alan Wolfe discuss topics that range from the place of religion in public life to political conflict in a pluralist society to the problems of racial inequality. Zusammenfassung In this volume, leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education, and discuss topics that range from the place of religion in public life to political conflict in a pluralist society to the problems of racial inequality.

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• Authors: Diane Ravitch, Diane Viteritti Ravitch, Joseph P. Viteritti
• Assisted by: Diane Ravitch (Editor), Ravitch Diane (Editor), Joseph P. Viteritti (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.08.2003
• EAN: 9780300099171
• ISBN: 978-0-300-09917-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms