Diversity and Distrust : : Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy / / Stephen MACEDO.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: MACEDO, Stephen ,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (363 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: The Place of Diversity --; 1. Diversity Ascendant --; I Public Schooling and American Citizenship --; Introduction --; 2. Civic Anxieties --; 3. Civic Excess and Reaction --; 4. The Decline of the Common School Idea --; 5. Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism --; II Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism --; 6. Multiculturalism and the Religious Right --; 7. Diversity and the Problem of Justification --; 8. The Mirage of Perfect Fairness --; 9. Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism --; III School Reform and Civic Education --; 10. Civic Purposes and Public Schools --; 11. The Case for Civically Minded School Reform --; Conclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674040403; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674040403
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen MACEDO.

Extending the ideas of John Rawls, Macedo defends a “civic liberalism” in culturally diverse democracies that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities.