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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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