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Public education, democracy, and the common good / edited by Donovan R. Walling.

Contributor Walling, Donovan, R.

Imprint:Bloomington, IN : Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, 2004.

Description175 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Our schools as an apprenticeship in democracy / John I. Goodlad - Public education is the common wealth of the nation / M. Donald Thomas and Joan P. Kowal - Educating the "good" citizen: political choices and pedagogical goals / Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne - The American tradition of education / J. Merrell Hansen - Eight considerations in the battle for public schools / Bruce M. Mitchell - Education for democracy: liberal, conservative, or does it matter? / Donovan R. Walling - Take back public education: a task for intellectuals in a time of crisis / Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux - Democracy, education, and a free press: beyond the cliché / Denis P. Doyle - Too much democracy? / Robert P. Engvall - Teaching for democratic citizenship / Patricia K. Kubow - Changing governance, changing voice? Democratic representation in public school governance / Ann Allen - Teaching for wisdom: what matters is not what students know, but how they use it / Robert J. Sternberg - Children of promise / Mary Ann Manos - Sectarian schooling and civic responsibility: "social capital" in Jewish day schools / Carol Harris-Shapiro - A madhouse without keepers / Thomas S. Smith - Public education is alive and well in Fairfax County / Daniel L. Duke.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliograghical references.



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Walling, Donovan, R.
Phi Delta Kappa. Educational Foundation.
Subject:
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Democracy -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Education -- Political aspects -- United States.