Democratic Education Stretched Thin

Democratic Education Stretched ThinArgues that the complexity of our pluralistic social world demands an enriched conception of democratic education. Is a democratic education promoting the ideals of human equality and individual liberty still tenable in a postmodern world of increasingly diverse and competing interests? Drawing on contemporary political theorists, including Michael Walzer and John Rawls, and also on philosophers such as Descartes and Hume, David J. Blacker addresses

The book is divided into three parts

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The veil of condemnation and jealousy imposed on eunuchs by the compilers of official history is pulled away to reveal a richly textured tapestry

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging has rapidly become the diagnostic imaging method of choice in many clinical situations

we consider the prospects for alternative production systems and production areas

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The 39 Steps (1935)

on the culture at large and how conflict is 'discussed' in the visual realm