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Walter Feinberg's Democratic Vision: Classic Writings on Public Education

Walter Feinberg's Democratic Vision: Classic Writings on Public Education

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Series: Suny Series, Horizons in the Philosophy of Education

General Education

ISBN13: 9798855802276
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 2 2025
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.31
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Collects Walter Feinberg's classic writings on the meaning of democracy for public education.

For over fifty years, Walter Feinberg has been a leader in interpreting democracy in and its meaning for public education. In this collection, Feinberg explores the question of how to study education, the necessary role of history and philosophy in this endeavor, and the need for educational theorists to engage with the lived realities of students, parents, and teachers through philosophical anthropology. He demonstrates a particular way of paying attention to public education that brings an interpretive sensitivity for others to the big philosophical questions of what public schooling should be in democratic societies. Feinberg explores many of the central questions that vex educational policy and practice: What should be the purpose of public schools? What should we think of school choice proposals? What are the relationships between religion and public schools? Should schools promote an American identity? How should we think about affirmative action? In this tour of educational ideas, democracy is the central concern, as it both presents questions that demand answers and becomes an approach to studying education with rigor and sensitivity.

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