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Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need ItCondition: NewEAN: 9781498517225ISBN: 9781498517225Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/28/2016Item Height: 240mmItem Length: 158mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 349gAuthor: Walter FeinbergLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public EngagementISBN-10: 1498517226Description: The unique mission of a public education is to reproduce a civic public. For the most part this will not happen in a vacuum and requires specific institutions, the most prominent of which are the public schools. Publicly supported schools have other functions as well. They socialize, train, produce a workforce, and, hopefully, promote individual growth and autonomy. Walter Feinberg argues that while all of these functions may be carried on by private or religious schools as well, public schools should have the additional responsibility of reproducing a civic public for a diverse pluralistic society. As Feinberg demonstrates, the problem is that in the context of neoliberal ideology, where all the other educational functions are reduced to economic ones within a market context ruled by competition—nation to nation, state to state, community to community, school to school, teacher to teacher, student to student—the public function becomes less and less central and more and more difficult to carry out. What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It suggests ways to change this by bringing the idea of a true public education back into focus.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Philosophy and Cultural IdentityTopic: Society & Culture, Children's Learning & EducationRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It

Title: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It

EAN: 9781498517225

ISBN: 9781498517225

Release Date: 01/28/2016

Release Year: 2016

Subtitle: A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitmen

ISBN-10: 1498517226

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality

Topic: Children's Learning & Education

Number of Pages: 154 Pages

Publication Name: What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It : A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement

Language: English

Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Publication Year: 2016

Item Height: 0.6 in

Subject: Political, Aims & Objectives

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.3 Oz

Item Length: 9.4 in

Author: Walter Feinberg

Subject Area: Philosophy, Education

Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity Ser.

Item Width: 6.2 in

Format: Hardcover