To restore American democracy
Subtitle: political education and the modern university
By: edited By Robert E. Calvert.
Contributors: Calvert, Robert E.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Higher education and state -- United States.; Education, Higher -- Political aspects -- United States.; Political socialization -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political education and the modern university : prologue / Robert E. Calvert; title: Between resignation and utopia : political education and the modern university / William A. Galston; title: Liberal education and the civic project / Michael J. Sandel; title: The media, the mall, and the multiplex : America's invisible tutors and the end of citizenship / Benjamin R. Barber; title: The values of media, the values of citizenship, and the values of higher education / Todd Gitlin; title: Public spaces and MyUniveristy.com / Cass R. Sunstein; title: The culture of expedience : liberal education meets the "real" world / James B. Stewart; title: Education and character in an age of moral freedom / Alan Wolfe; title: Democracy, character, and the university / Leroy Rouner; title: How do we talk? : God talk and American political life / Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Plato's dogs : reflections on the university after 9/11 / Stephen Holmes; title: The civic education of a Black American in a great big world / Roger Wilkins; title: Moral education and democratic citizenship / Michael Walzer; title: Utopias gone wrong : the anti-political culture of the modern university and how to change it / Robert E. Calvert.