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Cultural Literacy and Civic Education

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Westbury Ian and Purves Alan C., eds. Cultural Literacy and the Idea of General Education: Eighty-seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, part 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. x, 272. $26.00.
Proctor Robert E.. Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud, with a Curriculum for Today's Students. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. Pp. xviii, 231. $25.00.
Pratte Richard. The Civic Imperative: Examining the Need for Civic Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 198. $22.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Brian Hendley
Brian Hendley*
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University of Waterloo
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , Winter 1989 , pp. 619 - 625
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Copyright © 1989 by the History of Education Society 

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1 Alfred North Whitehead, Aims of Education (New York, 1967), 62. For more on Whitehead's theory and practice as an educator, see Brian Hendley, Dewey, Russell, Whitehead: Philosophers as Educators (Carbondale, Ill., 1986).Google Scholar