On the public and civic purposes of education

Educational Theory

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-376

  Abowitz, Kathleen Knight ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 65249147710     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2008.00293.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Alastair Hannay, On the Public (New York: Routledge, 2005), 25.
2. See Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Jason Harnish, "Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship," Review of Educational Research 76M, no. 4 (2006): 653-690.
3. Susan H. Fuhrman and Marvin Lazerson, eds., The Public Schools (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). This work will be cited as PS in the text for all subsequent references.
4. Kevin McDonough and Walter Feinberg, eds., Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). This work will be cited as CE in the text for all subsequent references.
5. Walter C. Parker, Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003). This work will be cited as TD in the text for all subsequent references.
6. Hannay, On the Public, 34.
7. The characterization of "anemic" comes from Robert B. Westbrook, Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005), 234.
8. Hannay, On the Public, 78.
9. David F. Labaree, "Public Goods, Private Goods: The American Struggle over Educational Goals," American Educational Research JournalM 34, no. 1 (1997): 39-81.
10. See, for example, Robert Goodin, Green Political Theory (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992);
11. Andrew Dobson, Green Political Thought, 3d ed. (New York: Routledge, 2000);
12. Andrew Dobson and Paul Lucardie, eds., The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory (New York: Routledge, 1993);
13. Andrew Dobson and Robyn Eckersley, eds., Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006);
14. and John M. Meyer, Political Nature: Environmentalism and the Interpretation of Western Thought (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001).
15. Positive participation refers to those actions that fall into the sanctioned and encouraged civic duties of all citizens, such as voting, serving on juries, and communicating with legislators through sanctioned channels. It is contrasted with more agitational civic activities and skills, which allow citizens to express antistatist critiques or views against the government or its institutions.
16. Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne, "What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy," American Educational Research Journal 41, no. 2 (2004): 237-269.
17. Westbrook, Democratic Hope, 234.
18. Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
19. Renato Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989),
20. quoted in Blanca G. Silvestrini, "The World We Enter When Claiming Rights: Latinos and Their Quest for Culture," in Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights, eds. William F. Flores and Rina Benmayor (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997), 44.
21. The emphasis in all quotations from Teaching Democracy is from the original text.
22. Paul Theobald, Teaching the Commons: Place, Pride, and the Renewal of Community (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1997), 7; quoted in TD, 7.
23. See, for example, Gregory A. Smith, "Place-Based Education: Learning to Be Where We Are," Phi Delta Kappan 83, no. 8 (2002): 584-594.
24. John Barry, "Resistance Is Fertile: From Environmental to Sustainability Citizenship," in Environmental Citizenship, eds. Andrew Dobson and Derek Bell (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006), 37.
25. Ibid.
26. Andrew Stables and William Scott, "Post-Humanist Liberal Pragmatism? Environmental Education Out of Modernity," Journal of Philosophy of Education 35, no. 2 (2001): 269-279.
27. Barry, "Resistance Is Fertile," 28.
28. As Marcel Wissenburg points out, the liberal tradition has been almost constitutionally indifferent to sustainability aims. Yet he asserts that while "interest in environmental issues does not come naturally for liberalism,.its internal checks and balances are slowly yet perceptibly greening liberalism." See Marcel Wissenburg, "Liberalism," in Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge, eds. Dobson and Eckersley, 20.
29. For more on how Deweyan pragmatism intersects with environmental ethics and political theory, see Andrew Light and Eric Katz, eds., Environmental Pragmatism (New York: Routledge, 1996).