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Civic matters affect all members of a community and are thus of potential concern to all. In Community Matters: Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century, six distinguished scholars address three perennial challenges of civic life: the making of a citizen, how citizens are to agree (and disagree), and how to define the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The thought-provoking essays in this volume discuss integral civic concerns such as: how can we improve civic education? How do we address controversy within our communities? What are the responsibilities of a citizen? Should the national draft be re-instated in the U.S? These essays will encourage students, academics, and interested citizens outside the academy to go farther and dig deeper into these vital issues.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 I. The Challenge of Civic Education
Chapter 2 Solving the Civic Achievement Gap in De Facto Segregated Schools
Chapter 3 Civic Education and Political Participation
Chapter 4 II. The Challenge of Civic Debate
Chapter 5 State Symbals and Multiculturalism
Chapter 6 Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum Controversy
Chapter 7 III. Service in Deed?: Civic Engagement and the Prospect of Mandatory Military Service
Chapter 8 A Sketch of Some Arguments for Conscription
Chapter 9 Conscription-No
Chapter 10 Conscription: Between the Horns

Product details

Published Aug 11 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 112
ISBN 9780742549609
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 227 x 148 mm
Series Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Verna V. Gehring

Contributor

Meira Levinson

Contributor

William A. Galston

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair…

Contributor

Jacob T. Levy

Contributor

Peter Levine

Contributor

Mick Womersley

Introduction

William A. Galston

William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair…

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