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9780787956813

The Last Best Hope A Democracy Reader

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    9780787956813

  • ISBN10:

    0787956813

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-06
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass

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Summary

Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Inquiry 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? Address some of the most important issues confronting democracy in the twenty-first century with this comprehensive anthology. In addition to providing a provocative view of a complex subject, this collection will also be invaluable to anyone seeking a general introduction and overview of contemporary thought on the subject of democracy and education. Democracy demands of its citizens the ability to discuss, debate, and learn from one another. The Last Best Hope, a companion volume to Developing Democratic Character in the Young, encourages and makes a major contribution to such discourse.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Source Texts xi
Introduction xv
Stephen John Goodlad
Acknowledgments xix
The Editor xxi
PART ONE Why Democracy?
Democracy
3(8)
Neil Postman
An Aristocracy of Everyone
11(14)
Benjamin R. Barber
PART TWO Concepts and Complexities
What Makes Democracy Work?
25(8)
Robert D. Putnam
The Democratic Virtues
33(16)
C. Douglas Lummis
Was Democracy Just a Moment?
49(26)
Robert D. Kaplan
PART THREE Citizenship and Character
The Masses in Representative Democracy
75(17)
Michael Oakeshott
Reorientation in Education
92(9)
Boyd H. Bode
The Education of Character
101(14)
Martin Buber
PART FOUR Democracy and Its Troubles
Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
115(16)
Noam Chomsky
Law and Justice
131(10)
Howard Zinn
Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust
141(18)
Wendell Berry
PART FIVE The Public and the Personal
Democracy and Human Nature
159(17)
John Dewey
Egalitarian Solidarity
176(18)
Philip Green
Moral Imagination
194(13)
Mark Johnson
PART SIX Education in a Democratic Society
How Colleges of Education Package the Myth of Modernity
207(9)
C. A. Bowers
Democratic Education in Difficult Times
216(15)
Amy Gutmann
What Is Education For?
231(12)
David W. Orr
PART SEVEN Human Potential and Democracy's Future
The Domain of the Future
243(15)
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Practical Utopianism
258(13)
Mary Midgley
Index 271

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