Are There Civic Returns to Education? " …since the achievement of American Independence, the universal and ever-repeated argument in favor of Free Schools has been, that the general intelligence which they are capable of diffusing, and which can be imparted by no other human instrumentality, is indispensable to a republican form of government. " Horace Mann (1846) INTRODUCTION Economists typica...

In 1991, Lawrence Grossman wrote that "a new political system is taking shape in the United States. As we approach the twenty-first century, America is tUrning into an electronic republic, a democratic system that is vastly increasing the people's day-to-day influence on decisions of state."l Grossman's forecast implied a sea change in the way citizens would interact with, and participate in, t...

In this paper, we examine how the relationship between authoritarianism and partisanship is conditioned by education. Arguing against perspectives suggesting that authoritarianism is the province of the ‘‘unsophisticated,’’ we hypothesize that the relationship between education and Republican partisanship should be stronger among educated Americans. Moreover, going beyond previous work on how e...

1 Dewey, Mitra, and the “Technological Proletariat:” Democratizing the Information Revolution John Hartmann, Southern Illinois University [email protected] Pragmatism and Technological Practice Conference Rochester Institute of Technology February 14, 2003 Do not cite w/o permission – comments are always welcome Introduction In his 1939 essay, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us,” John De...

The purpose of this study was to explore nurse managers' perceptions related to their leadership styles, knowledge, and their skills in these areas in health centre wards in Finland. The data were collected from nurse managers (n = 252) in health centre hospitals in Finland using a structured questionnaire (response rate 63%). Six leadership styles-visionary, coaching, affiliate, democratic, co...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influences of parenting styles on development of children aged three to six years. MATERIAL AND METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted in 360 children and their parents selected by multi-stage random sampling. The data were collected from July 24th to August 31st, 2004. The Denver II test kit and the scale by Baumrind D were used to test the child developmen...

In the first part of this paper the topic of networked learning is approached from the perspective of workers in the knowledge economy who engage in lifelong learning in communities of practice and in formal education. Distributed communities of practice (DCoP) in the knowledge economy are similar in function to networked learning communities (NLCs) in formal education with a stronger focus on ...