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Community Matters
Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century
Community Matters
Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century
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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 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 | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 112 |
| ISBN | 9780742574458 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Series | Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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