At no time in the past century have there been fiercer battles over our public schools than there are now. Parents and educational reformers are challenging not only the mission, content, and structure of mass compulsory schooling but also its underlying premise -- that the values promoted through public education are neutral and therefore acceptable to any reasonable person. In this important book, Rosemary Salomone sets aside the ideological and inflammatory rhetoric that surrounds today's debates over educational values and family choice. She offers instead a fair-minded examination of education for democratic citizenship in a society that values freedom of conscience and religious pluralism. And she proposes a balanced course of action that redefines but does not sever the relationship between education and the state.
Words: community schools

Author: Salomone, Rosemary C.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community, and Common Education
Pages: 00329 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2000-04-01
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780300081190
Category: Education : Philosophy & Social Aspects