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Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Societyreviewed by Walter C. Parker - 2002 Title: Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society Author(s): Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti (Editors)
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300088787 , Pages: 368, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society is a
14-chapter volume edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti who
together chair the Program on Education and Civil Society at New
York University. They have coedited two prior volumes: New
Schools for a New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education
(1997) and City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000).
The book has an array of authors, topics, and approaches all
located in mainstream, neoliberal political space. The fifteen
authors, including Ravitch who writes the first chapter and
Viteritti who writes the last, are scholars teaching in departments
of public policy, history, political science, law, and education.
In addition to Ravitch, two chapter authors are likely to be known
to readers of TCR: William Damon (The Moral Child,
1990) and Nathan Glazer (We Are All Multiculturalists Now,
1997). Readers who follow the democratic citizenship education
literature will also recognize Robert Putnam (Bowling Alone,
2000) and Norman Nie (Education and Democratic Citizenship in
America, 1996).
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- Walter Parker
University of Washington E-mail Author Walter C. Parker's specialization is social studies curriculum and
instruction, with emphasis on education for democracy. He teaches social
studies curriculum and instruction courses in the graduate Teacher Education
Program at the University of Washington, as well as seminars on democratic
citizenship education. His interests are suggested by the titles of his
written work: Books include: Renewing the Social Studies Curriculum (1991),
Educating the Democratic Mind (1996), and Social Studies in Elementary
Education (2001). Two additional books will be published in the Spring or
Summer of 2002: Democracy, Diversity, and Deliberation in Education
(Teachers College Press); and Education for Democracy--Curricula, Contexts,
Assessments (Information Age Press).
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