An Interview with Robert K. Fullinwider

Abstract

In this interview, Professor Robert K. Fullinwider, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the debate on multiculturalism and `identity politics' and its relevance to educational theory. The interview also examines questions related to citizenship education, inclusion, and diversity in American public education. It also addresses several other important questions in contemporary political theory and philosophy of education, e.g. the civic purposes of public schooling, the sharp decline of civic culture over the past decades, issues of cultural diversity and value pluralism in contemporary liberal democracies.