The American Idea, Resilience, and Thrivancy Education - by Dexter Chapin (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- This book is about a path forward, creating cultural resilience so rising generations of Americans can thrive.
- Author(s): Dexter Chapin
- 170 Pages
- Social Science, Sociology
- Series Name: Education
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Book Synopsis
This book is about a path forward, creating cultural resilience so rising generations of Americans can thrive. In 1995, William Strauss and Neil Howe predicted that by 2025, America would be in crisis. It has arrived on schedule. Do we have, or can we develop, the cultural resilience to navigate the crisis, protect and maintain the American Idea, and come out the other side in a better place than we are now? Our resilience depends on the number of alternative paradigms we have available to us, fewer paradigms, less resilience. For fifty years, there has been a dominant, white male, cultural paradigm, driving others to the margins, and slowly devolving into an ideology. Ideologies truncate resilience and preclude Thrivancy. How did we get here and how do we get out?
Review Quotes
Chapin presents a thoughtful model for transforming the American education system into a catalyst for developing a healthier, more viable society. After providing an overview of destructive currents from the last seventy years that diminished the expression of the American Idea, Chapin unveils an antidote. A blueprint emerges for reinventing organizations and companies that prioritize the community good beginning at the foundational level of how we educate children. For anyone interested in an insightful presentation on moving the American experiment forward I strongly recommend this book.
Joe Loftin
President
Global Culture Education Initiative
There are more than enough resources to go around in the United States if we could stop long enough to see that the oligarchs and would-be authoritarians are putting us against each other. This competition prevents mutual thriving, and keeps us all struggling for no reason other than it benefits those at the top.
Dexter Chapin's book will take readers along and show you the story of how we got to this moment and help his readers reclaim their powers of imagination to see that another world is possible. A better world is possible. Chapin's book is a must-read as we struggle to keep our democracy from being dismantled in the next several election cycles.
Anna Elisabeth Howard
Author of "Inward Apocalypse: Uncovering a Faith for the Common Good"
Founder of 'Wild Thriving'