What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It - A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement (Paperback)

The unique mission of a public education is to reproduce a civic public. For the most part this will not happen in a vacuum and requires specific institutions, the most prominent of which are the public schools. Publicly supported schools have other functions as well. They socialize, train, produce a workforce, and, hopefully, promote individual growth and autonomy. Walter Feinberg argues that while all of these functions may be carried on by private or religious schools as well, public schools should have the additional responsibility of reproducing a civic public for a diverse pluralistic society. As Feinberg demonstrates, the problem is that in the context of neoliberal ideology, where all the other educational functions are reduced to economic ones within a market context ruled by competition-nation to nation, state to state, community to community, school to school, teacher to teacher, student to student-the public function becomes less and less central and more and more difficult to carry out. What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It suggests ways to change this by bringing the idea of a true public education back into focus.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Philosophy and Cultural Identity
Release date:	July 2017
Authors:	Walter Feinberg
Dimensions:	234 x 148 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-1724-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-4985-1724-2
Barcode:	9781498517249

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