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

Title
The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.
Author
Block, James E.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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xii, 447 pages; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Call Number
JFE 15-2565
ISBN
  • 9780674051942
  • 0674051947
LCCN
2011022862
OCLC
709670295
Author
Block, James E.
Title
The crucible of consent : American child rearing and the forging of liberal society / James E. Block.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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JFE 15-2565
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