1. "What we call the beginning is often the end …"
Joan N. Burstyn
2. Educating for Public and Private Life: Beyond the False Dilemma
James M. Giarelli and Ellen Giarelli
3. Developing the Good Person: The Role of Local Publics
Thomas Mauhs-Pugh
4. To Illuminate or Indoctrinate: Education for Participatory Democracy
Jerilyn Fay Kelle
5. Subverting the Capitalist Model for Education: What Does it Mean to Educate Children to be Valuable Members of a Valuable Society?
Zeus Yiamouyiannis
6. Assaulting the Last Bastions of Authoritarianism: Democratic Education Meets Classroom Discipline
Barbara McEwan
7. Practice Makes Perfect: Civic Education by Precept and Example
Donald Warren
8. Preparing Citizens for a Decent Society: Educating for Virtue
John Covaleskie
9. Service Learning as Civic Education: Difference, Culture War, and the Material Basis of a Good Life
Mary B. Stanley
10. Meeting the Demands of Postmodern Society
Joan N. Burstyn
11. "The end is where we start from …"
Joan N. Burstyn
Contributors
Index