The Ideology of Civic Engagement: AmeriCorps, Politics, and Pedagogy

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Contents Acknowledgments Chapter One A Shoulder to the Wheel: Dialectics and Democracy in Critical Education Research Using Dialectics to Investigate Democracy and Learning A Historical Materialist Dialectical Approach Dialectics and Learning Dialectics and Democracy An Ontological Shift from Subjects to Relations: Dialectics and Institutional Ethnography The Arch of the Book Chapter Two Community Service and “Learning” Democracy Civic Dis/Engagement as Academic Debate and Pedagogical Possibility Stream One: National Service and Democratic Socialization Stream Two: Community Service, Service-learning, and Civic Engagement Convergence: A State Politics of Learning Democracy Chapter Three The Social Organization of Community Service and Civic Engagement in AmeriCorps Institutional Regulation of Sites of Civic Engagement Criteria 1: Eligibility Criteria 2: Sustainability The Coordination of Work in AmeriCorps Permissibility and Prohibition in Service Activities The “Logical” Organization of Service Work AmeriCorps as New Public Management? Chapter Four The Actualities and Vacuities of Civic Engagement in AmeriCorps The Emergence and Consolidation of Civic Engagement in AmeriCorps From Performance Measure to Pedagogy Pedagogy or Ideology? Chapter Five Civic Engagement and Community Service as Ideological Frame and Practice Service, Citizenship, and the State Local People with Private Politics Faced with Public Problems Citizenship as Relations of Ruling Chapter Six New Citizens for an Age of Uncertainty Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Civic Engagement Locating Civic Engagement in the Dislocation of the Political from the Material in Capitalist Social Relations The Contradiction of Freedom and Equality Specific and General Forms of the Ideology of Citizenship Reproducing and Revolutionizing the Ideology of Civic Engagement Chapter Seven Beyond a Better Democracy: Rehistoricizing and Rematerializing Critical Education Returning to Social Relations: History, Materiality, and Ideology in Praxis Final Thought: The Way Out Is Back Through Notes Bibliography Index