Terms of Inclusion: Unity and Diversity in Public Education

Authors

Harvey Kantor, University of Utah
Robert Lowe, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

20 p.

Publication Date

8-2007

Publisher

Wiley

Source Publication

Educational Theory

Source ISSN

0013-2004

Abstract

In this review essay, Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe explore the history of the culture wars in public education in the United States. Drawing on three books — David Tyack’s Seeking Common Ground, Jonathan Zimmerman’s Whose America? and Amy Binder’s Contentious Curricula— Kantor and Lowe review the history of struggles over the content of history texts and over the place of religion and religious values in the classroom. They suggest that while these struggles have been partially successful in freeing public education from the racial and ethno-religious particularisms that informed its origins, the more inclusive curriculum that resulted from these efforts has been rendered largely symbolic by the persistence of segregation and the inequality of resources that accompanies it.

Comments

Accepted version. Educational Theory, Vol. 57, No. 3 (August 2007): 369-388. DOI. © 2007 Wiley. Used with permission.

Recommended Citation

Kantor, Harvey and Lowe, Robert, "Terms of Inclusion: Unity and Diversity in Public Education" (2007). College of Education Faculty Research and Publications. 151.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/edu_fac/151