Humanizing democracy: Matthew Arnold's nineteenth-century call for a common, higher, educative pursuit of happiness and its relevance to twenty-first-century democratic life

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 593-637

  Novak, Bruce ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Democratic education; Educational reform; Humanities; John Stuart Mill; Matthew Arnold; Thomas Carlyle

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036745803     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/00028312039003593     Document Type: Review

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