Civic Education and Culture - Hardcover

9781932236613: Civic Education and Culture

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932236619 ISBN 13: 9781932236613

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2005

What do we teach our citizens? This great Platonic question is as crucial today as it has ever been. America and the West come to terms with this question in the context of their richly diverse, technologically sophisticated, fundamentally individualistic societies. Virtually all would agree that such diversity, sophistication, and freedom are positive political and cultural goods, but many would also argue that they militate against the coherence that all regimes and civilizations must, in some way, demand. The nature, extent, and coherence of civic education are perhaps the greatest determinants of a regime's politics and culture, and the regime can in turn do much to foster the right kind of civic education. This book presents the insights of renowned scholars and writers, including Stephen H. Balch, Timothy Fuller, and Roger Kimball, who have thought broadly and deeply about the role that education at all levels plays in promoting, maintaining, or undermining our politics, culture, and society.

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About the Author:

Bradley C. S. Watson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Economic and Policy Education, Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His books include Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy (Lexington Books, 1999) and Courts and the Culture Wars (Lexington Books, 2002).

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