Democratic Transformations: Eight Conflicts In The Negotiation Of American Identity
by Kerry T. Burch /
2012 / English / PDF
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What will it take for the American people to enact a more
democratic version of themselves? How to better educate
democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these
crucial predicaments, this innovative book proposes that instead
of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American
identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of
pedagogical opportunity.
What will it take for the American people to enact a more
democratic version of themselves? How to better educate
democratic minds and democratic hearts? In response to these
crucial predicaments, this innovative book proposes that instead
of ignoring or repressing the conflicted nature of American
identity, these conflicts should be recognized as sites of
pedagogical opportunity.
Kerry Burch revives eight fundamental pieces of political public
rhetoric into living artifacts, into provocative instruments of
democratic pedagogy. From "The Pursuit of Happiness" to "The
Military-Industrial Complex," Burch invites readers to encounter
the fertile contradictions pulsating at the core of American
identity, transforming this conflicted symbolic terrain into a
site of pedagogical analysis and development. The learning theory
embodied in the structure of the book breaks new ground in terms
of deepening and extending what it means to "teach the conflicts"
and invites healthy reader participation with America's defining
civic controversies. The result is a highly teachable book in the
tradition of A People's History of the United States and Lies My
Teacher Told Me.
Kerry Burch revives eight fundamental pieces of political public
rhetoric into living artifacts, into provocative instruments of
democratic pedagogy. From "The Pursuit of Happiness" to "The
Military-Industrial Complex," Burch invites readers to encounter
the fertile contradictions pulsating at the core of American
identity, transforming this conflicted symbolic terrain into a
site of pedagogical analysis and development. The learning theory
embodied in the structure of the book breaks new ground in terms
of deepening and extending what it means to "teach the conflicts"
and invites healthy reader participation with America's defining
civic controversies. The result is a highly teachable book in the
tradition of A People's History of the United States and Lies My
Teacher Told Me.
