Advancing Democracy Through Education? : U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices

by Stevick, Doyle

• ISBN13: 9781593116552
• ISBN10: 1593116551
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Information Age Pub Inc

Summary

"This book explores the diversity of American roles in education for democracy cross-culturally, both within the United States and around the world. This collection provides a rich sampling of the diverse contexts and ways in which American ideas, practices, and policies of education for democracy are spread, encountered, appropriated, rejected, or embraced around the world. This volume introduces concepts, identifies processes, notes obstacles and challenges, and reveals common themes that can help us to understand American influence on education for democracy more clearly, wherever it occurs."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Education policy, national interests, and advancing democracy
Beyond nationalism : the Founding Fathers and educational universalism in the new republic	p. 1
Becoming American in time? : the educational implications of binary discourse on immigration	p. 29
Higher education and civic engagement in the United States : budgetary, disciplinary, and spatial borders	p. 55
Discourse versus practice in civic education for development : the case of USAID assistance to Palestine	p. 75
Foreign influence and economic insecurity in international partnerships for civic education : the case of Estonia	p. 97
Civic education reform for democracy : U.S. models in Mexico and Indonesia	p. 129
Developing citizenship education curriculum cross-culturally : a democratic approach with South African and Kenyan educators	p. 159
Putting equity into action : a case study of educators' professional development in twenty-first century Kazakhstan	p. 179
From monsoons to Katrina : the civic implications of cosmopolitanism	p. 207
Building towards democracy in apartheid South Africa : a pioneering partnership for training black school leaders, 1989-95	p. 229
About the authors	p. 257
Index	p. 263
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