"All the papers in this volume were originally presented at a symposium on 'Collective Identities and Cosmopolitan Values: Group Rights and Public Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies,' held in Montreal from June 22 to 25, 2000"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Liberalism and the dilemma of public education in multicultural societies / Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough -- Teaching cosmopolitan right / Jeremy Waldron -- Liberal education: the United States example / K. Anthony Appiah -- Pluralism, personal identity, and freedom of conscience / Kenneth A. Strike -- Between state and civil society: European contexts for education / Joseph Dunne -- The burdens and dilemmas of common schooling / Terence H. McLaughlin -- Should we teach patriotic history? / Harry Brighouse -- Comprehensive educations and the liberal understanding of autonomy / Shelley Burtt -- Citizenship as identity, citizenship as shared fate, and the functions of multicultural education / Melissa S. Williams -- Civic friendship and democratic education / David Blacker -- Schooling and cultural maintenance for religious minorities in the liberal state / J. Mark Halstead -- Multicultural accommodations in education / Rob Reich -- 'Mistresses of their own destiny': group rights, gender, and realistic rights of exit / Susan Moller Okin -- Multinational civic education / Kevin McDonough -- Religious education in liberal democratic societies: the question of accountability and autonomy / Walter Feinberg -- Liberalism and group identities / Stephen Macedo.
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