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Nathan Glazer

The melting pot no longer defines us. Where not very long ago we sought assimilation, we now pursue multiculturalism. Nowhere has this transformation been more evident than in the public schools, where a traditional Eurocentric curriculum has yielded to diversity - and, often, to confrontation and confusion. In a book that brings clarity and reason to this highly charged issue, Nathan Glazer explores these sweeping changes. He offers an incisive account of why we all - advocates and skeptics alike - have become multiculturalists, and what this means for national unity, civil society, and the education of our youth. Focusing particularly on the impact in public schools, Glazer dissects the four issues uppermost in the minds of people on both sides of the multicultural fence: Whose "truth" do we recognize in the curriculum? Will an emphasis on ethnic roots undermine or strengthen our national unity in the face of international disorder? Will attention to social injustice, past and present, increase or decrease civil disharmony and strife? Does a multicultural curriculum enhance learning, by engaging students' interest and by raising students' self-esteem, or does it teach irrelevance at best and fantasy at worst? Glazer argues cogently that multiculturalism arose from the failure of mainstream society to assimilate African Americans; anger and frustration at their continuing separation gave black Americans the impetus for rejecting traditions that excluded them. But, willingly or not, we are all multiculturalists now, Glazer asserts, and his book gives us the clearest picture yet of what there is to know, to fear, and to ask of ourselves about this new identity.

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Giorgio Manfré

Le idee raccolta in questo saggio si muovono nell'ambito di un'area interdisciplinare di indagine, verso cui vengono fatti convergere orientamenti conoscitivi e di ricerca fra loro alquanto eterogenei: costruttivismo e teoria della società, storia sociale, antropologia, psicoanalisi. E la sfida consiste in questo: tornare, attraverso una ricognizione su alcune opere di tre protagonisti della cultura moderna - Niklas Luhmann, Karl Marx e Sigmund Freud - a interrogare le radici stesse della modernità, e ciò chiedendosi, andando in controtendenza, se la crisi della modernità (qui intesa come crisi del rapporto individuo-società) è un fatto irreversibile oppure, al contrario, superabile.

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Beverly Falk

This book brings together a group of educators and scholars who offer insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Each chapter presents experiences and suggestions, from the perspectives of different disciplines, about what can be done to ensure that all children gain access to the supports they need for optimal physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development.

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[by] Ira J. Tanner

In his inquiry into the causes of loneliness, a marriage and family counselor stresses the fear of love evident in the stages of human development and discusses the need for intimacy and understanding.