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Community Matters : Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century.
In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. These essays wil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2005.
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| Colección: | Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; The Challenge of Civic Engagement: An Introduction; The Challenge of Civic Education
- I; Solving the Civic Achievement Gap in De Facto Segregated Schools; The Civic Achievement Gap and De Facto Segregated Schools; Reformulating Civic Education within the Social Studies: Students' Construction of Civic Narrative; Sources; Civic Education and Political Participation; Why Does Civic Disengagement Matter?; The Current Failure of Civic Education; Does Civic Knowledge Matter?; Doing School-Based Civic Education.
- The Importance and the ChallengeSources; The Challenge of Civic Debate
- II; State Symbols and Multiculturalism; Disputes Over Symbols; Responses to Symbolism; Words Can Never Hurt Me?; The Symbols of Slavery; Sources; Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum Controversy; Charges of "Censorship"; Sinful and Tyrannical Subsidies?; A More Constructive Approach; Deliberation and the Avant-Garde; The Politics of Art; Sources; Service in Deed?: Civic Engagement and the Prospect of Mandatory Military Service
- III; A Sketch of Some Arguments for Conscription; An Abuse of State Power?
- The Legacy of the AVF: Economic and Social StratificationThe Importance of Universal Service; Sources; Conscription-No; Philosophical Foundations; Practical Difficulties; The Real Message of Coerced Service; Conscription Properly Bounded; Postscript: A Comment on Class; Sources; Conscription: Between the Horns; The Unfair Burden; A Failure to Appreciate Harm; Between the Horns: Service and Education; Possible Objections; Conclusion; Sources; Index; About the Editor and Contributors.