Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World

by Carlos Alberto Torres

Book Overview

This important book looks at developments that are changing our understanding of the role of education in citizenship and the possibilities of democratic participation. The chapters cover theories of citizenship and education and the transition from the welfare state to the neoliberal state, and draw on Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Kant, Hegel, Marx and other writers such as C. Mouffe and C. Pateman to outline contemporary approaches to multiculturalism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847685357
• ISBN13: 9780847685356
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"