Civic and Moral Learning in America [Paperback]

From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.Moral and Civic Education in Current Policy Environments - R. Freeman Butts * Can Civic and Moral Education Be Distinguished? - Barry L. Bull * Cato's Resolve and the Revolutionary Spirit: Political Education, Civic Action, and the Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s - Brian W. Dotts * Moral Educations on the Alaskan Frontier, 1794-1917 - Milton Gaither * Social Capital and the Common Schools: A Research Agenda for Moral Education in Nineteenth-Century America - John L. Rury * Down on the Farm: Civic Learning and Agrarian Uplift in the 1850s - Glenn Lauzon * Let Virtue Be Thy Guide, and Truth Thy Beacon Light : A German-American Case of Moral and Civic Transformation in Public Schools - Paul J. Ramsey * Land, Law, and Education: The Problematic History of American Indian Citizenship, 1871-1924 - David Wallace Adams * Widening the Circle: African American Perspectives on Moral and Civic Education - Paulette Patterson Dilworth * From Theology to Character: The Progressive Turn in YMCA Work with College Men - David P. Setran * Berkeley Women Economists, Public Policy, and Civic Sensibility - Mary Ann Dzuback * Monuments and Morals: The Role of National Icons in American Moral Thinking - John Bodnar * Sex, Drugs, and Right 'n' Wrong: Or, The Passion of Joycelyn Elders, M.D. - Jonathan Zimmerman * Afterword

'Don Warren's and John Patrick's edited volume has arrived just in time. Disputes currently rage about the nature and need for special civic and moral education in our nation. In these circumstances, roles of school and home and community and texts and traditions and hopes too commonly are l#²