The
crucible of consent
American child rearing and the forging of liberal society
Block, James E.
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ebrary, Inc
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Electronic books.
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Cambridge, Mass
Harvard University Press
2012
monographic
eng
xii, 447 p.
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.
James E. Block.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Children and politics
United States
History
Child rearing
Political aspects
United States
History
Liberalism
United States
Citizenship
United States
Consensus (Social sciences)
Agent (Philosophy)
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