{"product_id":"the-last-best-hope-isbn-9780787956813","title":"The Last Best Hope","description":"Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Inquiry \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What are the conditions necessary for democracy to exist and flourish? Is democracy a sustainable ideal? What does individual freedom mean in a democracy? What is the relationship between democracy and morality? What roles does or should education play in a democratic society? Address some of the most important issues confronting democracy in the twenty-first century with this comprehensive anthology. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In addition to providing a provocative view of a complex subject, this collection will also be invaluable to anyone seeking a general introduction and overview of contemporary thought on the subject of democracy and education. Democracy demands of its citizens the ability to discuss, debate, and learn from one another. The Last Best Hope, a companion volume to Developing Democratic Character in the Young, encourages and makes a major contribution to such discourse.  Source Texts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction (S. Goodlad).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Editor\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e WHY DEMOCRACY?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Democracy (N. Postman).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An Aristocracy of Everyone (B. Barber).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CONCEPTS AND COMPLEXITIES.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Makes Democracy Work? (R. Putnam).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Democratic Virtues (C. Lummis).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Was Democracy Just a Moment? (R. Kaplan).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e CITIZENSHIP AND CHARACTER.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Masses in Representative Democracy (M. Oakeshott)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reorientation in Education (B. Bode).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Education of Character (M. Buber).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DEMOCRACY AND ITS TROUBLES.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order (N. Chomsky).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Law and Justice (H. Zinn).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Jefferson, Morrill, and the Upper Crust (W. Berry).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE PUBLIC AND THE PERSONAL.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Democracy and Human Nature (J. Dewey).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Egalitarian Solidarity (P. Green).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Moral Imagination (M. Johnson).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e EDUCATION IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How Colleges of Education Package the Myth of Modernity (C. Bowers).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Democratic Education in Difficult Times (A. Gutmann).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What Is Education For? (D. Orr).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e HUMAN POTENTIAL AND DEMOCRACY'S FUTURE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Domain of the Future (M. Csikszentmihalyi).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Practical Utopianism (M. Midgley).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index. \"These essays will challenge groups of democratic readers to examine their social and political assumptions, and in so doing will enable them to strengthen their commitment to the quality of democratic life. The Last Best Hope is a call to reflective action.\" (Stanley N. Katz, professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and professor emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies) STEPHEN JOHN GOODLAD is a writer and philosopher whose interests center on the relationships between environmentalism, ecology, and democracy and, in turn, the implications of those relationships for education and schooling. This comprehensive anthology addresses some of the most important issues confronting democracy in the twenty-first century. For instance, What are the conditions necessary for democracy to exist and flourish? Is democracy a sustainable ideal? What does individual freedom mean in a democracy? What is the relationship between democracy and morality? What roles does or should education play in a democratic society Essays from such distinguished thinkers as Benjamin Barber, Robert Kaplan, Wendell Berry, Noam Chomsky, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Amy Gutmann, Neil Postman, Robert Putnam, and Howard Zinn are included.  In addition to providing a provocative view of a complex subject, this collection will also be invaluable to anyone seeking a general introduction and overview of contemporary thought on the subject of democracy and education. Democracy demands of its citizens the ability to discuss, debate, and learn from one another. The Last Best Hope, a companion volume to Developing Democratic Character in the Young, encourages and makes a major contribution to such discourse. \"These essays will challenge groups of democratic readers to examine their social and political assumptions, and in so doing will enable them to strengthen their commitment to the quality of democratic life. The Last Best Hope is a call to reflective action.\" —Stanley N. Katz, professor, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and professor emeritus, American Council of Learned Societies The Editor Stephen John Goodlad is a writer and philosopher whose interests center on the relationships between environmentalism, ecology, and democracy and, in turn, the implications of those relationships for education and schooling.  This comprehensive anthology addresses some of the most important issues confronting democracy in the twenty-first century. 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