Teaching America : Reflective Patriotism in Schools, College, and Culture

Name: Teaching America : Reflective Patriotism in Schools, College, and Culture
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Teaching AmericaReflective Patriotism in Schools, College, and Culture\nAuthor(s): Paul O. Carrese\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009746649, 978-1009746649\nSynopsis\nIn Teaching America, Paul Carrese offers an intellectual justification for reviving a reflective and discursive approach to civic education. He explores why civic education is crucial for sustaining our democratic republic and explains how a sober, yet hopeful, civics is vital to both civic learning and perpetuating the American experiment. Blending gratitude for America with civil argument about what America means, Carrese implores educators to explore civics informed by rational patriotism. In this Tocquevillean approach, civil disagreement is a feature, not a failing, of our constitutional democracy. He argues that schools, colleges, and culture must develop citizens with the knowledge and virtues to operate our civic order,.