Democratic Transformations
Subtitle: Eight Conflicts in the Negotiation of American Identity
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781441112132
Subjects: Political culture; United states, politics and government
Description: What will it take for the American people to enact a more democratic version of themselves? How to better educate democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these crucial predicaments, this book proposes that instead of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of pedagogical opportunity. Kerry Burch revives eight fundamental pieces of political public rhetoric into living artifacts, into provocative instruments of democratic pedagogy. Burch invites readers to encounter the fertile contradictions pulsating at the core of American identity, transforming this conflicted symbolic terrain into a site of pedagogical analysis and development.