Liberal education, civic education, and the Canadian regime : past principles and present challenges /
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime asks what is the place of a liberal education, that is, studying the great books and Canada's political and philosophy history, as in the tradition of the liberal arts, in the education and development of the idea of citizenship in the...
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Montreal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / David W. Livingstone
- When Canadians rewrote their history : discarding "liberty" and embracing "community" / Janet Ajzenstat
- Liberal education embedded in civic education for responsible government : the case of John George Bourinot / John von Heyking
- Constituting Canadians : George Brown's confederation address / Geoffrey C. Kellow
- Thomas D'arcy McGee's civic paideia for Canada / David W. Livingstone
- Canadian guardian : the educational statesmanship of Egerton Ryerson / Colin D. Pearce
- Marshall McLuhan, George Grant, and the ancient-modern-Protestant quarrel in Canada / Grant N. Havers
- Catholic education and the culture of life / Ryan N.S. Topping
- Liberal education and the democratic soul : lessons from Alexis de Tocqueville / Richard Myers
- Democracy in Canada : what Tocqueville can teach Canadians / Luigi Bradizza
- Ties of friendship and citizenship in a globalized world / Leah Bradshaw
- The Supreme of Court of Canada as moral tutor : religious freedom, civil society, and charter values / Thomas M.J. Bateman
- The Hobbesian foundations of modern illiberal education / Travis D. Smith
- Contributors
- Index.