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The crucible of consent

by Block, James E.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Harvard University Press, (Cambridge, Mass. :) Physical details: xii, 447 p.
Subject(s): Children and politics -- United States -- History. | Child rearing -- Political aspects -- United States -- History. | Liberalism -- United States. | Citizenship -- United States. | Consensus (Social sciences) | Agent (Philosophy) | Electronic books.
Year: 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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