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Autobiographers as Teachers: Toward Solving the Problem of Civic Education by Amy A. Kass - 1989My thesis is that the self-presentations of the lives of
exemplary or especially typical Americans, carefully considered, can
serve as models or instruments in educating the reader for democratic
citizenship by (a) promoting understanding of our civic principles and
practices, (b) cultivating social consciousness and civic self-consciousness,
and (c) fostering public-spiritedness.  View Full Text in PDF Format| This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 88, No. 1. |
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- Amy Kass
University of Chicago
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AMY A. KASS is a Senior Lecturer in the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
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