Democratic Transformations : Eight Conflicts in the Negotiation of American Identity


Kerry T. Burch
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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London : : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2012.
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1 online resource (225 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1 The pursuit of happiness; Transforming american scripture into a site of democratic pedagogy; Citizens and idiots: an ancient greek and roman snapshot of human happiness; Jefferson unplugged: moving beyond idiotic pursuits of happiness; Hannah arendt and John Dewey on Jefferson's legacy; The pursuit of happiness and the renaissance of civic virtue; Notes; Chapter 2 The tyranny of the majority; Reflections on a democratic educational conundrum; Contextualizing the tyranny of the majority. - A tale of two heroisms: How William James turned Theodore Roosevelt on his headHow Jane Roland Martin turns William James on his head: Reflections on the status of a Jamesian category; Constructing musical education as a moral equivalent of war: The need for a recovery of Horace Mann's lost Eighth Report (1844); Notes; Chapter 6 The business of America is business; Framing the contradictions at the heart of the "roaring twenties"; Coolidge, advertising, and religion: Constructing the business mind in the 1920s; John Dewey's construction of the democratic mind in the 1920s. - Making the personal political: The education of desire and purpose in the formation of democratic selfhoodTeachers as lovers or managers? Reflections on the impossibility of teacher neutrality; Notes; Epilogue Educating the souls of democratic folk; What jazz music can teach us about the education of democratic souls; Notes; Acknowledgments; Further Reading; Index. - The task before us-treating corporate personhood as the new Plessy v. FergusonNotes; Chapter 7 The military-industrial complex; Putting the "Academic" back into the military-industrial-academic complex; The difficulty of mapping the expanding boundaries of the military industrial-academic-media-sports entertainment-complex; Rereading the "Complex" psychologically: Toward a theory of America's civic neurosis; Notes; Chapter 8 The personal is political; Bridging the gap between feminist consciousness-raising groups and critical pedagogy. - The tyranny of the majority and the "inverted totalitarianism" of American democracyClassroom manifestations of the tyranny of the majority; The tyranny of the majority as a resource for cultivating democratic moral literacy; Notes; Chapter 3 Four score and seven years ago; Civic rebirth and the erotic character of the Gettysburg Address; The "apple of gold" and the "picture of silver": What the textbooks don't say; Reading lincoln as a symbol of american identity: Toward a new civic aesthetic; Notes; Chapter 5 The moral equivalent of war. - What will it take for the American people to enact a more democratic version of themselves? How to better educate democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these crucial predicaments, this innovative book proposes that instead of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of pedagogical opportunity. Kerry Burch revives eight fundamental pieces of political public rhetoric into living artifacts, into provocative instruments of democratic pedagogy. From ""The Pursuit of Happiness"" to ""The Military-Industrial Com
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