Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need ItCondition: NewEAN: 9781498517249ISBN: 9781498517249Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/17/2017Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 148mmItem Width: 13mmItem Weight: 240gAuthor: Walter FeinbergLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public EngagementISBN-10: 1498517242Description: The unique mission of a public education is to reproduce a civic public. For the most part this will not happen in a vacuum and requires specific institutions, the most prominent of which are the public schools. Publicly supported schools have other functions as well. They socialize, train, produce a workforce, and, hopefully, promote individual growth and autonomy. Walter Feinberg argues that while all of these functions may be carried on by private or religious schools as well, public schools should have the additional responsibility of reproducing a civic public for a diverse pluralistic society. As Feinberg demonstrates, the problem is that in the context of neoliberal ideology, where all the other educational functions are reduced to economic ones within a market context ruled by competition—nation to nation, state to state, community to community, school to school, teacher to teacher, student to student—the public function becomes less and less central and more and more difficult to carry out. What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It suggests ways to change this by bringing the idea of a true public education back into focus.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Philosophy and Cultural IdentityTopic: Society & Culture, Children's Learning & EducationRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It
Title: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It
EAN: 9781498517249
ISBN: 9781498517249
Release Date: 07/17/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitmen
ISBN-10: 1498517242
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Children's Learning & Education
Number of Pages: 164 Pages
Publication Name: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It : A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Political, Aims & Objectives
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Walter Feinberg
Subject Area: Philosophy, Education
Item Width: 5.8 in
Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
