The crucible of consent
Subtitle: American child rearing and the forging of liberal society
By: James E. Block
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780674051942
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences); Citizenship; Children and politics; History; Child rearing; Liberalism; Agent (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: is consent credible?; title: The hidden dynamic of childhood consent; title: Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure; title: Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of; title: Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen; title: Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age; title: Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society.