Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference

by Walter Feinberg

Book Overview

One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary education concerns the tension between the demands of such groups as blacks, Latinos, gays, women, and the handicapped for a curriculum that recognizes their particular identity-and the competing position that the role of public education is to infuse children with a common American identity. In this book, a distinguished philosopher of education takes on that debate, indicating the underlying ethical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082924
• ISBN13: 9780300082920
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.3"