TY - BOOK AU - Block,James E. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The crucible of consent: American child rearing and the forging of liberal society AV - HQ784.P5 B56 2012 U1 - 649/.10973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Press KW - Children and politics KW - United States KW - History KW - Child rearing KW - Political aspects KW - Liberalism KW - Citizenship KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Agent (Philosophy) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: is consent credible? -- The hidden dynamic of childhood consent -- Part I. The dream of revolutionary erasure -- Part II. Framing liberal child-rearing in the early republic: from factionalism to mainstream: the emerging consensus on agency socialization; constituting the voluntary citizen; socializing society: popular education and the diffusion of -- Agency; educating the agent as liberal citizen -- Part III. Consolidating the postwar agency republic: the "self-made" citizen: the science of agency and the erasure of socialization; a superfluous socialization? shaping the self-realizing child; divided we stand: education in the emerging organizational age -- Coda: from dewey to discord-the twentieth-century crisis of the consensual society; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nird-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3301042 ER -