Advancing democracy through education?
Subtitle: U.S. influence abroad and domestic practices
By: edited by Doyle Stevick and Bradley Levinson.
Contributors: Stevick, Doyle, 1969-; Levinson, Bradley A., 1963-
Series: Education policy in practice
Publisher: IAP-Information Age Pub. Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781593116545; 9781593116552
Subjects: Democracy -- Study and teaching; Civics -- Study and teaching; Democracy assistance -- United States -- Case studies; Democracy and education
Genres: Case studies.
Description: This book explores the diversity of American roles in education for democracy cross-culturally, both within the United States and around the world. This collection provides a rich sampling of the diverse contexts and ways in which American ideas, practices, and policies of education for democracy are spread, encountered, appropriated, rejected, or embraced around the world. This volume introduces concepts, identifies processes, notes obstacles and challenges, and reveals common themes that can help us to understand American influence on education for democracy more clearly, wherever it occurs.--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : education policy, national interests, and advancing democracy / Doyle Stevick and Bradley A. U. Levinson; title: Beyond nationalism : the founding fathers and educational universalism in the new republic / Benjamin Justice; title: Becoming American in time? : the educational implications of binary discourse on immigration / Patricia Buck with Rachel Silver; title: Higher education and civic engagement in the United States : budgetary, disciplinary, and spatial borders / Kathleen Staudt; title: Discourse versus practice in civic education for development : the case of USAID assistance to Palestine / Ayman M. Alsayed; title: Foreign influence and economic insecurity in international partnerships for civic education : the case of Estonia / Doyle Stevick; title: Civic education reform for democracy : U.S. models in Mexico and Indonesia / Bradley A.U. Levinson and Margaret Sutton; title: Developing citizenship education curriculum cross-culturally : a democratic approach with South African and Kenyan educators / Patricia K. Kubow; title: Putting equity into action : a case study of educators' professional development in twenty-first century Kazakhstan / David Landis and Sapargul Mirseitova; title: From monsoons to Katrina : the civic implications of cosmopolitanism / Payal P. Shah; title: Building towards democracy in apartheid South Africa : a pioneering partnership for training black school leaders, 1989-95 / Ronald R. Atkinson and Judy L. Wyatt.