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Education and Equality
Danielle Allen
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Description for Education and Equality
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 241 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
American education as we know it today--guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country--is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued educational discourse, offering a compelling proposal to finally resolve the dispute. Allen argues that education plays a crucial role in the cultivation of political and social equality and economic fairness, ... Read more
American education as we know it today--guaranteed by the state to serve every child in the country--is still less than a hundred years old. It's no wonder we haven't agreed yet as to exactly what role education should play in our society. In these Tanner Lectures, Danielle Allen brings us much closer, examining the ideological impasse between vocational and humanistic approaches that has plagued educational discourse, offering a compelling proposal to finally resolve the dispute. Allen argues that education plays a crucial role in the cultivation of political and social equality and economic fairness, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226373102
SKU
V9780226373102
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About Danielle Allen
Danielle Allen is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, she is the author of many books, most recently Our Declaration, and coeditor of From Voice to Influence and Education, Justice, and Democracy, the latter two published by the University of Chicago ... Read more
Reviews for Education and Equality
Danielle Allen ... is a pragmatic visionary. ... The implicit argument is that being democratic and being happy, possessed of well-being, is in our self-interest. An explicit argument, refreshing to read, is that the humanities are essential to such happiness.
Catharine R. Stimpson Public Books [A]n ambitious and rich blend of themes. Baldly summarized, they ... Read more
Catharine R. Stimpson Public Books [A]n ambitious and rich blend of themes. Baldly summarized, they ... Read more