Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Place of Diversity 1. Diversity Ascendant Public Schooling and American Citizenship 2. Civic Anxieties 3. Civic Excess and Reaction 4. The Decline of the Common School Idea 5. Civic Ends: The Dangers of Civic Totalism Liberal Civic Education and Religious Fundamentalism 6. Multiculturalism and the Religious Right 7. Diversity and the Problem of Justification 8. The Mirage of Perfect Fairness 9. Divided Selves and Transformative Liberalism School Reform and Civic Education 10. Civic Purposes and Public Schools 11. The Case for Civically Minded School Reform Conclusion: Public Reasons, Private Transformations Notes Index
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 accesibility and clarity that are gifts to the reader. -- Rogers M. Smith, author of Civic Ideals : Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
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*
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.
*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*
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