Introduction: is consent credible?
The hidden dynamic of childhood consent
Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure
Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of
Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen
Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age
Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society.