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Becoming American

Thomas K. Lindsay

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Description:When Lindsay calls for the need for all university students to “undertake the serious study of the character & foundations of American democracy,” he calls for more than a reform in curriculum, he calls for a reform in pedagogy itself. & this reform, it seems to me, can only take place when we can learn & then practice--in what can pass for our collective consciousness–-national appetites that reach higher than individual rights & liberties based on consumption. These higher virtues, I’d like to call them, can only be taught & learned (with all due respect to Mr. Shepperd), & there is no more critical need for a country such as ours--a collection of seemingly infinite classes & creeds--to be called, as a whole, to its higher nature in order to conduct itself with mutual respect & concern. Lindsay’s “core questions” give a wonderful entrée into some of the important issues that need to be analyzed & explored in order for us to begin to understand the nature of the political ideals that may provide the only access to a national identity available to such a diverse people. & in spite of the small-mindedness that results from the bureaucracy foisted upon our beleaguered high school teachers, & in spite of the unattractive posturing of cynical disdain that depletes the moral energy in many of our university professors, it is thru our classrooms that we will collectively learn these virtues that Lindsay speaks of as rising robustly from our founding documents. To educate a whole people was never an easy project, & now it is more challenging still. Perhaps we should start by rejecting the tired yet still-popular notions disallowing us from engaging in open & honest inquiry & that require, instead, that we choose a battleground, like constant adversaries, to staunchly defend our cause. But this kind of openness will require teachers & professors, themselves, to recover or discover a sense of higher things, among them, the “self evident” & “inalienable rights” for which our Declaration pleads--Claudia Allums, Dallas Institute of Humanities & CultureWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming American. To get started finding Becoming American, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Publisher: Inside Higher Ed

Release: 2008

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Description: When Lindsay calls for the need for all university students to “undertake the serious study of the character & foundations of American democracy,” he calls for more than a reform in curriculum, he calls for a reform in pedagogy itself. & this reform, it seems to me, can only take place when we can learn & then practice--in what can pass for our collective consciousness–-national appetites that reach higher than individual rights & liberties based on consumption. These higher virtues, I’d like to call them, can only be taught & learned (with all due respect to Mr. Shepperd), & there is no more critical need for a country such as ours--a collection of seemingly infinite classes & creeds--to be called, as a whole, to its higher nature in order to conduct itself with mutual respect & concern. Lindsay’s “core questions” give a wonderful entrée into some of the important issues that need to be analyzed & explored in order for us to begin to understand the nature of the political ideals that may provide the only access to a national identity available to such a diverse people. & in spite of the small-mindedness that results from the bureaucracy foisted upon our beleaguered high school teachers, & in spite of the unattractive posturing of cynical disdain that depletes the moral energy in many of our university professors, it is thru our classrooms that we will collectively learn these virtues that Lindsay speaks of as rising robustly from our founding documents. To educate a whole people was never an easy project, & now it is more challenging still. Perhaps we should start by rejecting the tired yet still-popular notions disallowing us from engaging in open & honest inquiry & that require, instead, that we choose a battleground, like constant adversaries, to staunchly defend our cause. But this kind of openness will require teachers & professors, themselves, to recover or discover a sense of higher things, among them, the “self evident” & “inalienable rights” for which our Declaration pleads--Claudia Allums, Dallas Institute of Humanities & CultureWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Becoming American. To get started finding Becoming American, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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