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Educators around the world consider how to prepare young people for a globalizing world. Jeffrey Dill studies the resolutions in some special schools that have made major efforts on this front. They try to prepare students both for productive lives, and for responsible citizenship, in the world society. This leaves open the moral nature of the global social order within which the students are to be both successful and good citizens. National identities won't do at all, but neither will religious ones. In practice, what evolves in the schools is an expanded individualism of a distinctly Western sort: the student should learn to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. Dill's analysis of the issue will be of great interest to those interested in the educational effects of globalization, and specifically to those interested in the contemporary meaning of civic education. - John Meyer, Department of Sociology, Stanford University The book is refreshingly clear and accessible and makes a very powerful contribution to the field. It is well-considered and argued and is of direct relevance and a must-read for anyone interested in citizenship education. The text has a political resonance that will have an impact. Highly recommended. - James Arthur, British Journal of Educational Studies

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Jeffrey S. Dill is Research Assistant Professor of Social Thought in the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA. 

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