Education for democracy : contexts, curricula, assessments

This book presents a vision of education for democracy built around promoting equity and social justice. In doing so, Camicia and Knowles challenge many of the common perspectives of democratic education, deliberation, and the common good. The authors have published widely on the topic of education...

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Other Authors Parker, Walter (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2002.
SeriesResearch in social education ; v. 2.
Subjects
Citizenship > Study and teaching > United States.
Democracy > Study and teaching > United States.
Multicultural education > United States.
Education > Multicultural Education.
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.
Educational strategies and policy.
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781918117486
DOI10.1108/978-1-60752-548-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Democratic education and the American dream / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick
  • Citizenship education / Elizabeth Frazer
  • The irony of exclusion / Yoon K. Pak
  • Education for democratic citizenship / Carole L. Hahn
  • Issue-centered education for democracy through project citizen / John J. Patrick, William A. Nixon, and Thomas S. Vontz
  • Political tolerance, democracy, and adolescents / Patricia G. Avery
  • Teaching for diversity and unity in a democratic multicultural society / James A. Banks
  • Educating "world citizens" / Walter C. Parker, Akira Inomiya, and John Cogan
  • An assessment of what 14-year-olds know and believe about democracy in 28 countries / Judith Torney-Purta and Wendy Klandl Richardson
  • Classroom assessment of civic discourse / David E. Harris.

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