Introduction
Introduction
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DOI：
10.1007/978-3-030-45763-1_1
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2020-05-28
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Burch KT
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当代的政治和教育格局被描述为反映了一系列相关的公民困境，这些困境构成了今天最重要的范例危机的基础。有人认为，为了克服这些相关危机带来的挑战，美国教育工作者尤其需要恢复美国民主革命传统的价值--这一传统以托马斯·杰斐逊的革命理论为象征。在此基础上，作者主张对杰斐逊为新一代美国人留下的遗产进行重大重新考虑。通过这种方式，杰斐逊的革命理论被框定为一种民主修辞，一种可以提醒美国人他们的革命最具革命性的东西，即它持续的、代际的特征。这本书的三部分结构仿照了耶利米德的三部分结构，这是一种修辞形式，是国家改革派冲动的核心。按照杰斐逊学派的说法，第一部分的“承诺”代表了美国民主作为一项代际工程的承诺，第二部分“解密”讨论了美国背叛其建国原则的三种方式，第三部分“复兴”被假定为受杰斐逊启发，重建公共教育的公民目的。
The contemporary political and educational landscape is described as reflecting a series of related civic predicaments that form the basis of today’s overarching paradigmatic crisis. It is suggested that in order to overcome the challenges posed by these related crises, American educators in particular need to recover the value of America’s democratic–revolutionary tradition–a tradition symbolized by Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary theory. On this basis, the author argues for a major reconsideration of Jefferson’s legacy for a new generation of Americans. In this way, Jefferson’s revolutionary theory is framed as a democratic rhetoric, one that can remind Americans of what was most revolutionary about their revolution, namely its ongoing, intergenerational character. The three-part structure of the book is modeled after the three-part structure of the jeremiad, a form of rhetoric central to the nation’s reformist impulses. Translating the jeremiad in Jeffersonian terms, Part I, the “promise” represents the promise of American democracy as an intergenerational project, and Part II, the “declension,” discusses three ways in which the nation has betrayed its founding principles, and Part III, the “renewal,” is posited as a Jeffersonian-inspired reconstruction of the civic purposes of public education.