184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book defends the role of public education against its critics and explores the implications of the traditional American belief in public education as a vehicle for extending democratic politics and the relationship between public knowledge, education, and democracy.
Introduction -- Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge: Toward a Socialist Theory of Education -- The Education of Henry Adams and the Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: A Case Study -- A Public Philosophy? Pragmatism and Public Knowledge -- Public Knowledge and the Paradox of Democratic Education -- Public Intellectuals and Public Knowledge -- Literacy for What? Critical Literacy and the Power of Public Knowledge -- Framing the Question of Freedom: Public Knowledge in Practice
Biography
Kelly, Elizabeth A.
