The political education of Democratus
Subtitle: negotiating civic virtue during the early republic
By: Brian W. Dotts
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Plymouth, UK; Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780739167205; 9780739167212
Subjects: Citizenship; Study and teaching; Democracy and education; EDUCATION / History; Political clubs; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects; EDUCATION / General; History
Description: "The radical Democratic-Republican Societies that emerged during the 1790s not only challenged conventional interpretations of the civic republican tradition, they also adopted Enlightenment principles in their advocacy for universal public education. Brian W. Dotts' The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic shows that, unlike mainstream educational philosophy of the period, radical democrats supported universal political education as essential in protecting liberty and political equality"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Introduction : Ploughshares, Politics, and Pedagogy : The Negotiation of Democratic-Republicanism and the Loss of Civic Sentiment; title: Chapter 2. Recovering Civic Republicanism : Ancient and Modern; title: Chapter 3. The New Arcadia : 'Set Our Cold Northern Island Burning'; title: Chapter 4. Trans-Atlantic Ties : Radical Whig Political Ideals and American Practice; title: Chapter 5. 'Who are These, Poor, Groveling, Insignificant Democrats Who Dare; title: Libel Us?'