Citizenship under fire : democratic education in times of conflict /
Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to p...
| Основен автор: | Ben-Porath, Sigal R., 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2006.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=273011 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Citizenship under fire. |
| Резюме: |
Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, Sigal Ben-Porath seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, Ben-Porath contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious teaching of history, and on drawing stark distinctions between them and us. As she writes, "The varying characteri. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 159 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-149) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400827183 1400827183 |