Advancing Democracy Through Education? U.S. Influence Abroad and Domestic Practices

This book explores the diversity of American roles in such cross—cultural engagement in education for democracy, both within the United States and around the world. Cross—cultural engagement in education for democracy inevitably bears the impressions of each culture involved and the dynamics among them.

Even high—priority, well—funded U.S. government programs are neither monolithic nor deterministic in their own right, but are rather reshaped, adapted to their contexts, and appropriated by t...