Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning

by Benjamin R. Barber and Grant Reeher

Book Overview

This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or culturally defining 'habits of the heart' which will enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community stretching beyond the university, and ultimately, support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847683664
• ISBN13: 9780847683666
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"