Sehr, David T.,  1958- <br/><br/>
Education for public democracy / 
David T. Sehr. 
 - Albany :  State University of New York Press,  �1997. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 195 pages) 
 - SUNY series, democracy and education .
 - SUNY series, democracy and education. Teacher empowerment and school reform. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index. 
<br/><br/>Pt. I. American Democracy: Privatized or Public? 1. Democratic Ideology, Hegemony and Education. 2. Ideological Roots of Privatized and Public Democracy: Contrasting Locke and the Federalist with Rousseau and Jefferson. 3. Privatized Democracy: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Ideology and Practice. 4. Public Democracy. 5. Education for Public Democratic Citizenship. pt. II. Democratic Education? Tales from Two Schools -- 6. Structure and Organization of Two Democratic High Schools -- 7. Curriculum and Pedagogy in Two Democratic High Schools -- 8. Promoting Public Democratic Citizenship: Student Responses to School Programs -- 9. In Search of Public Democratic Education. 
<br/><br/> Education for Public Democracy identifies two competing traditions of American democracy and citizenship: a dominant; privately-oriented citizenship tradition and an alternative tradition of public democratic citizenship. Based on the second tradition; public democracy, the author outlines a set of qualities an effective democratic citizen must possess, as well as a number of ideal school practices that promote these qualities in young people. This discussion provides a framework for analyzing two democratic urban alternative high schools. The book provides an essential bridge between democratic theory and promising school practices that promote public democratic citizenship. Its insights will be indispensable to teachers, school administrators, teacher educators, and theorists who seek to recreate American education in the service of a revitalized democracy. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0585055335 9780585055336 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96001079  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Critical pedagogy--United States.<br/>Education--Philosophy--History.--United States<br/>Democracy--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.<br/>EDUCATION--Aims & Objectives.<br/>Critical pedagogy.<br/>Democracy--Study and teaching (Secondary)<br/>Education--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LC196.5.U6  / S45 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370.11/5/0973