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Democracy's Midwife: An Education in Deliberation

Democracy's Midwife: An Education in Deliberation

Crittenden, Jack

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0739103296
ISBN13: 9780739103296
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 12 2002
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The philosopher-educator John Dewey wrote that Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife. In an America where every vote-though considered equally-counts for very little, Democracy's Midwife offers the vision of a new kind of democratic system: a deliberative democracy energized by an educated citizenry. Jack Crittenden's excellent new study looks behind the modern democratic rhetoric to reveal a system of government that excludes citizens from participating directly in decision-making. The book combines a thorough examination of the theoretical underpinnings of democratic education with radical solutions for the overhaul of a system of civic education dating back to the Founding Fathers. Democracy's Midwife is both a denunciation of an education system that has failed to prepare future citizens for participation in public life and a timely blueprint for the creation of a civic-minded electorate prepared for the responsibility of self-government.

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