Rhetoric And The Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, And Education In Early America (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit),Used

Rhetoric And The Republic: Politics, Civic Discourse, And Education In Early America (Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit),Used

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Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education.Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an ageold republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the variousand often conflictingcurricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues that higher education more than 200 years ago allowed actors with differing political and economic interests to wrestle over the fate of American citizenship. Then, as today, there was widespread agreement that civic training was essential in higher education, but there were also sharp differences in the various visions of what proper republic citizenship entailed and how to prepare for it.Longaker studies in detail the specific trends in rhetorical education offered at various early institutionssuch as Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and William and Marywith analyses of student lecture notes, classroom activities, disputation exercises, reading lists, lecture outlines, and literary society records. These documents reveal an extraordinary range of economic and philosophical interests and allegiancesagrarian, commercial, spiritual, communal, and belletristicspecific to each institution. The findings challenge and complicate a widely held belief that earlyAmerican civic education occurred in a halcyon era of united democratic republicanism. Recognition that there are multiple ways to practice democratic citizenship and to enact democratic discourse, historically as well as today, best serves the goal of civic education, Longaker argues.Rhetoric and the Republic illuminates an important historical moment in the history of American education and dramatically highlights rhetorical education as a key site in the construction of democracy.

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