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What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It - A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement (Hardcover)
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What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It - A Philosophical Inquiry into Self-Development, Cultural Commitment, and Public Engagement (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophy and Cultural Identity
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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.
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