The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society /

The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Block, James E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Children and politics > History.
Child rearing > Political aspects > United States > History.
Liberalism > United States.
Citizenship > United States.
Consensus (Social sciences)
Agent (Philosophy)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: is consent credible?
  • The hidden dynamic of childhood consent
  • Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure
  • Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of
  • Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen
  • Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age
  • Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society.