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Diversity and Distrust
Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy
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Stephen Macedo
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English
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2003
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Extending the ideas of John Rawls, Macedo defends a “civic liberalism” in culturally diverse democracies that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities.
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Macedo makes a strong case for what he calls civic liberalism, a ‘tough-minded’ dedication to democratic institutions and virtues… [Macedo is] often engrossing, as his trenchant analysis illuminates court cases; the history of American schools; the influence of American liberalism on Catholicism; and political thinkers from Locke to Rawls… Macedo embodies the kind of citizen he wants to shape: self-critical, respectful of opponents, and giving and demanding reasons based on shared experience. A serious…answer to the question of how to preserve a common civic life in an era of pluralism.
-- Kirkus Reviews
-- Kirkus Reviews
Diversity and Distrust is a powerful book that examines closely the connections between liberalism’s democratic principles and diversity, religion, and public schooling. Macedo has presented a very thoughtful analysis of what it means to craft a civil society based on shared moral principles. Macedo argues for a firm approach to democratic liberalism and diversity. He also offers a hard challenge to free-market libertarians, the religious right, parental-rights activists and multi-culturalists.
-- Paulette Patterson Dilworth Journal of Moral Education
-- Paulette Patterson Dilworth Journal of Moral Education
In this stimulating, well-informed work, Stephen Macedo turns to the perplexing but pivotal contemporary issues of diversity, civic identity, and civic education. The view he espouses is distinctive but sensible, and should have broad appeal. He uses historical, theoretical, and policy materials deftly, and writes with an accessibility and clarity that are gifts to the reader.
-- Rogers M. Smith, author of Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
-- Rogers M. Smith, author of Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
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