Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge

by Elizabeth A. Kelly

Overview

This timely volume explores the present-day implications of the traditional American belief in public education as a vehicle for extending democratic politics. In light of the current debates about public schools, are they still the key to upward mobility? Can they still serve to create a civic consciousness? Elizabeth A. Kelly defends the role of public education against its critics and throws light on such issues as privatization, voucher systems, the role of public intellectuals, critical literacy, and educational reform. She unabashedly offers a renewed vision of public schooling as the locus of public knowledge and political democracy, a vision that will appeal to those who are not prepared to abandon the ideals of either democracy or public education. Generously conceived, clearly argued, and gracefully written, Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge is important reading not just for students of democracy and of education but for all those concerned with the future of American education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429719790
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/04/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	575 KB

About the Author

Kelly, Elizabeth A.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge: Toward a Socialist Theory of Education -- The Education of Henry Adams and the Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: A Case Study -- A Public Philosophy? Pragmatism and Public Knowledge -- Public Knowledge and the Paradox of Democratic Education -- Public Intellectuals and Public Knowledge -- Literacy for What? Critical Literacy and the Power of Public Knowledge -- Framing the Question of Freedom: Public Knowledge in Practice