Education Between State, Markets, and Civil Society

Taylor & Francis

*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural societies?\n *What are the roles in education of civil society, markets, governments, and the family?\n *How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or juxtapositions of \""market versus government\"" or \""individualism versus communitarianism?\""\n *What are some of the traditions of civil society--across countries and across history--that educators and policymakers today can revive or build on?\n\n These questions are at the center of this book. Its goal is to understand how we can accommodate cultural, ethnic, and religious pluralism in a political and conceptual framework that is sufficiently flexible to combine choice with equity, a commitment to a shared civil and political culture with openness to exploring and affirming the distinct ethnicity, race, creed, or culture of different groups.\n\n To address these questions, the authors take up.