Community Matters

Challenges to Civic Engagement in the 21st Century
Herausgeber: Gehring, Verna V.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy Studies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 175g
• ISBN-13: 9780742549609
• ISBN-10: 0742549607
• Artikelnr.: 21099403

Autorenporträt

Verna V. Gehring is editor at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, and editor of Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

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