For the first time in a decade, leaders and citizens across the
political spectrum are celebrating dissent. The reappearance of
dissent in town hall meetings and on street corners brings new
promise for improved democratic life and citizen participation. But
this promise cannot be fulfilled if schools do not cultivate the
skills necessary for our citizens to engage in political dissent.
Indeed, this book reveals troubling practices in schools, resulting
from the testing atmosphere and the hidden curriculum, that omit or
suppress students ability to dissent and voice ideas that stand in
opposition to the status quo. In this exciting book, Stitzlein
investigates the historical and philosophical foundations of
dissent in the work of the American Founders and the pragmatist
philosophers who followed them. She examines the ways in which
dissent is understood as a negative right and then proposes instead
that dissent should be seen as a positive right. This book calls
for a realignment of curriculum and the practices of schooling with
both a guiding vision and a realistic interpretation of democracy
as it is currently invoked in the era of Tea Party protests."
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