Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference - Couverture souple

Feinberg, Walter

 
9780300082920: Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300082924 ISBN 13 : 9780300082920
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2000

Synopsis

One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary education concerns the tension between the demands of such groups as blacks, Latinos, gays, women, and the handicapped for a curriculum that recognizes their particular identity--and the competing position that the role of public education is to infuse children with a common American identity. In this book, a distinguished philosopher of education takes on that debate, indicating the underlying ethical issues on each side and showing how schools can promote both national and cultural identities.

Walter Feinberg develops a theory of education that is twofold: it is sensitive to the concerns of parents and community members who want the public schools to reinforce their particular values and group identity, and it also maintains a commitment to the "principled reasons" for public education--the general ideals that public education shares with a liberal political philosophy, particularly equality of educational opportunity, freedom of association, and individual development. Feinberg develops an understanding of basic principles that schools should use in addressing cultural differences, tests these and shows how liberalism is indeed compatible with cultural recognition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Walter Feinberg is professor of the philosophy of education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The author of many books, he is past president of both the American Educational Studies Association and the Philosophy of Education Society.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300082924
ISBN 13 
9780300082920
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
278
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780300074222: Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300074220 ISBN 13 :  9780300074222
Editeur : Yale University Press, 1998
Couverture rigide