Pluralism and American public education : no one way to school / Ashley Rogers Berner.
2017
LA210 .B47 2017
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Title
Pluralism and American public education : no one way to school / Ashley Rogers Berner.
ISBN
9781137502247 (electronic book)
113750224X (electronic book)
1137502231
9781137502230
1137502266
9781137502261
113750224X (electronic book)
1137502231
9781137502230
1137502266
9781137502261
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 184 pages).
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-50224-7 doi
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LA210 .B47 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
370.973
Summary
This book argues that the structure of public education is a key factor in the failure of America's public education system to fulfill the intellectual, civic, and moral aims for which it was created. The book challenges the philosophical basis for the traditional common school model and defends the educational pluralism that most liberal democracies enjoy. Berner provides a unique theoretical pathway that is neither libertarian nor state-focused and a pragmatic pathway that avoids the winner-takes-all approach of many contemporary debates about education. For the first time in nearly one hundred fifty years, changing the underlying structure of America's public education system is both plausible and possible, and this book attempts to set out why and how.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-177) and index.
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Series
Education policy (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Educational philosophies and why they matter
Chapter 2. Why political philosophy matters
Chapter 3. American constitutions and religious schools
Chapter 4. Citizenship, achievement, and accountability
Chapter 5. The limits of educational pluralism and how to address them
Chapter 6. Changing the frame.
Chapter 1. Educational philosophies and why they matter
Chapter 2. Why political philosophy matters
Chapter 3. American constitutions and religious schools
Chapter 4. Citizenship, achievement, and accountability
Chapter 5. The limits of educational pluralism and how to address them
Chapter 6. Changing the frame.