Last Best Hope - A Democracy Reader

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung This volume provides an introduction to the topic of democracy! the challenges of sustaining a democracy in today's society! and the crucial links between democracy! education! ecology! and social justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Goodlad, S.j. Goodlad, Stephen John Goodlad, Stephen John (University of Washington Goodlad
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen John Goodlad (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.03.2001
• EAN: 9780787956813
• ISBN: 978-0-7879-5681-3
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Jossey-Bass Education
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Political structures: democracy, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education