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ERIC EJ1013497: No Values, No Democracy: The Essential Partisanship... |
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The past several decades have witnessed increasing |
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efforts to advance universities as institutions |
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supporting democratic civic education in the United |
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States. Unfortunately, civic engagement initiatives |
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frequently are framed as apolitical, which I argue is |
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either under-theorized or disingenuous. In this article, |
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I first review perceptions of values, partisanship, and |
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political agendas in the contemporary university. Second, |
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I turn to the historic role of democratic values within |
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the American educational system. Third, I provide a |
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conception of civil society useful for considering the |
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ways in which democratic values must be continuously |
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nurtured in the face of countervailing pressures from the |
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market and the state. Fourth, I employ that lens to |
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consider national trends in understanding of and support |
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for education and related issues. Fifth, I move on to |
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assert, drawing on Rorty (1998) and Schwartz (2008), that |
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universities have surrendered their historic roles as |
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civil society supporters of democratic values. Sixth, I |
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consider implications for service-learning and community |
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engagement before demonstrating how the human rights |
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scholarly community offers a helpful model of |
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continuously critical values commitment. And finally, I |
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close with a vision of universities taking clear |
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positions in support of democratic values. (Contains 4 |
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notes.) |
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Date Published: 2018-10-01 04:26:38 |
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Identifier: ERIC_EJ1013497 |
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Item Size: 14378807 |
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Language: english |
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Media Type: texts |
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