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Education for Responsible Citizenship: The Report of the National Task Force on Citizenship Educationreviewed by Robert G. Hanvey - 1979 Title: Education for Responsible Citizenship: The Report of the National Task Force on Citizenship Education Author(s): B. Frank Brown Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: , Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com This volume opens with twenty-one committee-generated recommendations for strengthening civic education (some useful, others bland) and closes with a totally uninspired "citizenship test" prepared by George Gallup. In between there is semi-nourishmenta collection of eleven papers written for the most part by white male academics with professional roots or interests in education. At least half of the papers have some punch; they instruct us in the history of ideas, point to defects in the way we have traditionally conceived and organized the transmission of civic values and skills, analyze the implications of change in the world and the implications of research, propose fresh goals.
Ralph Tyler talks of the need for "comprehensive citizenship education" in which planned out-of-school educational programs are at least as important as those in school. He admits the implicit threat to schools:
The school cannot easily deal with comprehensive citizenship education, because it cannot be the chief contributor... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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