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Author:   Kevin McDonough (Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, McGill University) ,  Walter Feinberg (Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780199283996

ISBN 10:   0199283990
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough: Introduction: Liberalism and the Dilemma of Public Education in Multicultural Societies Cosmopolitanism, Liberalism, and Common Education 1: Jeremy Waldron: Teaching Cosmopolitan Right 2: K. Anthony Appiah: Liberal Education: The United States Example 3: Kenneth A. Strike: Pluralism, Personal Identity, and Freedom of Conscience 4: Joseph Dunne: Between State and Civil Society: European Contexts for Education 5: Terence H. McLaughlin: The Burdens and Dilemmas of Common Schooling 6: Harry Brighouse: Should We Teach Patriotic History? Liberalism and Traditionalist Education 7: Shelley Burtt: Comprehensive Educations and the Liberal Understanding of Autonomy 8: Melissa S. Williams: Citizenship as Identity, Citizenship as Shared Fate, and the Functions of Multiculatural Education 9: David Blacker: Civic Friendship and Democratic Education 10: J. Mark Halstead: Schooling and Cultural Maintenance for Religious Minorities in the Liberal State Liberal Constraints on Traditionalist Education 11: Rob Reich: Multicultural Accomodations in Education 12: Susan Moller Okin: 'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny': Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit 13: Kevin McDonough: Multinational Civic Education 14: Walter Feinberg: Religious Education in Liberal Democratic Societies: The Question of Accountability and Autonomy 15: Stephen Macedo: Liberalism and Group Identities

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This fine collection illustrates the complexity of the present contested terrain of liberal theory in philosophy of education. The authors provide such a thorough treatment of the issues that we are left asking where the debate could go from here. Theory and Research in Education, 3 (3), p. 377 (2005)

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Kevin McDonough is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University. Walter Feinberg is Professor of Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Cahmpaign.

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