San Antonio College Library

This book examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace. Drawing on examples from Israel and the United States, the author seeks to understand how ideas about citizenship change when a country is at war, and what educators can do to prevent some of the most harmful of these changes. Perhaps the most worrisome one, he contends, is a growing emphasis in schools and elsewhere on social conformity, on tendentious...