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Political Science and Educational Research reading list

 

June 10 - 11, 1998

Mapping The Terrain: Political Science and Educational Research

Reading List

 

Anyon, Jean. 1997. Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. New York: Teachers College Press.

 

Barber, Benjamin. 1992. An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and the Future of America. New York: Ballantine Books.

 

Barber, Benjamin. 1984. Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley: University of California Press.

 

Bloom, Allan David. 1988. The Closing of the American Mind: How HigherEducation Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. New York: Simon and Schuster.

 

Bruner, Jerome. 1996. The Culture of Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Carpini, Michael X.Delli and Scott Keeter. What Americans Know About Politicsand Why It Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 

Coles, Robert. 1989. The Call of Stories. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

 

Emberley, Peter C. and Waller R. Newell. 1994. Bankrupt Education: The Decline Of Liberal Education in Canada. Toronto, Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.

 

Fishkin, James S. 1991. Democracy and Deliberation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

 

Galston, William. 1991. Liberal Purposes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Gutmann, Amy. 1987. Democratic Education. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Henig, Jeffrey R. 1994. Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Kaestle, Carl F. 1983. Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society. New York, NY: Hill and Wang.

 

Katznelson, Ira and Margaret Weir. 1985. Schooling For All: Class, Race, and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal. New York, NY: Basic Books.

 

Markus, Hazel and Paula Nurius. 1986. Possible Selves. American Psychologist, 41, 954-969.

 

Nie, Norman, JaneJunn and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry. 1996. Education and Democratic Citizenship in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Nussbaum, Martha C. 1995. Poetic Justice: The Literacy Imagination and Public Life. Boston, MA : Beacon Press.

 

Rich, Wilbur. 1996. Black Mayors and School Politics. New York: Garland Press.

 

Sandel, Michael J. 1996. Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

 

Spinner, Jeff. 1994. The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in the Liberal State. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Steiner, David M. 1994. Rethinking Democratic Education: The Politics of Reform. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

Tamir, Yael (ed). 1995. Democratic Education in a Multicultural State. Oxford, GB: Blackwell Publishers.

 

Taylor, Charles. 1994. The Politics of Recognition. In Amy Gutmann (ed), Multiculturalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

 

Turner, Stephen. 1994. The Social Theory of Practices. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Wolin, Sheldon S. 1989. The Presence of the Past. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.