This book is a collection of essays on political education for democratic citizenship in higher education developed out of meetings over 5 years of a small group of faculty, administrators and students who gathered to discuss the way academia was educating young people for political responsibility. Following a foreword and an introduction by Bernard Murchland, the 21 papers are: "Democracy in America: Bringing It All Back Home" (J. Peter Euben); "Strengthening Citizenship" (Robert B. Woyach); "The People Shall Rule" (Sara M. Evans and Harry C. Boyte); "The Nature and Nurture of Public Life" (Parker Palmer); "Civic Intelligence" (David Mathews); "The Public Realm" (Hannah Arendt); "The Primacy of Political Education" (Amy Gutmann); "Civic Education and the Liberal State" (William Galston); "A Renewal of Civic Philosophy" (William Sullivan); "On Participation" (Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer); "Toward a Cultural Democracy" (Manuel Ramirez and Alfredo Castaneda): "Democracy, Deliberation, and the Experience of Women" (Jane Mansbridge); "The New Cultural Politics of Difference" (Cornel West); "The Civic Mission of the University" (Benjamin R. Barber); "The Liberal Arts and Civic Education" (Ralph Ketcham); "Embracing Diversity as a Central Campus Goal" (Daryl G. Smith); "Civic Education, Liberal Education, and Democracy" (J. Donald Moon); "Education, Autonomy, and Civic Virtue" (Richard Dagger); "Some Reflections on Civic Education and the Curriculum" (Elizabeth K. Minnich); "The Difficult Dialogue of Curriculum Transformation" (Johnnella E. Butler); and"Critical Pedagogy and the New Politics of Cultural Difference" (Henry A. Giroux).
Alphabetically arranged entries cover such topics as the Bill of Rights, voting, abortion, globalization, Social Security, civil rights, and military issues.
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