Educating Tomorrow's Valuable Citizen

Joan N. Burstyn is Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education and of History at Syracuse University. She is the author of Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood, as well as two books of poetry, Song Cycle and Waiting for the Lame Horse, and is the editor of Preparation for Life?: The Paradox of Education in the Late Twentieth Century and Desktop Publishing in the University.

"Civic education is addressed in this book by exploring a number of theories about its nature and purpose. At the same time, none of the authors refuses to consider practical meaning and applications of their ideas. While there are a number of books on ideas in post-modernism and participatory democracy, none successfully brings these ideas (and others) to focus on civic education as does this book. It is a book that deserves to be read, and especially to be placed in the hands of students in teacher education." — J. J. Chambliss, Rutgers University

• 1. "What we call the beginning is often the end …"Joan N. Burstyn 2. Educating for Public and Private Life: Beyond the False DilemmaJames M. Giarelli and Ellen Giarelli 3. Developing the Good Person: The Role of Local PublicsThomas Mauhs-Pugh 4. To Illuminate or Indoctrinate: Education for Participatory DemocracyJerilyn Fay Kelle 5. Subverting the Capitalist Model for Education: What Does it Mean to Educate Children to be Valuable Members of a Valuable Society?Zeus Yiamouyiannis 6. Assaulting the Last Bastions of Authoritarianism: Democratic Education Meets Classroom DisciplineBarbara McEwan 7. Practice Makes Perfect: Civic Education by Precept and ExampleDonald Warren 8. Preparing Citizens for a Decent Society: Educating for VirtueJohn Covaleskie 9. Service Learning as Civic Education: Difference, Culture War, and the Material Basis of a Good LifeMary B. Stanley 10. Meeting the Demands of Postmodern SocietyJoan N. Burstyn 11. "The end is where we start from …"Joan N. Burstyn Contributors Index