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Teaching Civics in Unstable Times
Guidelines for Defining “We” in American Democracy|
27,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 10.11.2021 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781475856101 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 134 |
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<p><span>American political culture runs through civics classrooms, and the degraded dialogue and scorched-earth partisanship that has defined modern American politics is an indicator that all is not well in our nation’s schools. </span><span>Teaching Civics in Unstable Times: Guidelines for Defining “We” in American Democracy</span><span> offers a fresh, expansive view of what civic education can look like in K-12 classrooms, and presents three strategies to help teachers, curriculum writers, and administrators turn their schools into laboratories for democracy that train young people for the moral and intellectual challenges of democratic citizenship.</span></p>
<p><span>This book defines “democracy” as a way of life that is characterized by frequent public engagement, stubborn open-mindedness, and rigorous debate. Our democratic government depends on our citizens leading a democratic life, and civic education’s chief priority is to teach young people how to do so. Civic curriculum has spent decades obsessing over names and dates that fail to give students a sense of their vaunted place in our governing system. This book presents</span><span> </span><span>three strategies</span><span> </span><span>for teaching civics that invest young people in our shared, grand experiment in self-government and prepares them to lead our nation towards a politics that is more compassionate, inclusive, and inspired.</span></p>
<p><span>This book defines “democracy” as a way of life that is characterized by frequent public engagement, stubborn open-mindedness, and rigorous debate. Our democratic government depends on our citizens leading a democratic life, and civic education’s chief priority is to teach young people how to do so. Civic curriculum has spent decades obsessing over names and dates that fail to give students a sense of their vaunted place in our governing system. This book presents</span><span> </span><span>three strategies</span><span> </span><span>for teaching civics that invest young people in our shared, grand experiment in self-government and prepares them to lead our nation towards a politics that is more compassionate, inclusive, and inspired.</span></p>
<p><span>Civic educators need new strategies to prepare young people for democratic citizenship. Complete with student-facing lesson plans that can be modified for any age, </span><span>Teaching Civics in Unstable Times</span><span> offers three rules</span><span> </span><span>for creating classrooms that prepare young people to be engaged contributors to their local, regional, and national communities.</span></p>
<p><span>Preface</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Section I. New Instructional Strategies for Government, Economics, and US History</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1.</span><span> Rule #1: Teach Debate as a Core American Value</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2.</span><span> Rule #2: Teach Renewal as a Core American Value</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3.</span><span> Rule #3 Teach Democracy as a Way of Life</span></p>
<p><span>Section II. Democratic Habits</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4.</span><span> Democratic Habit #1: All Citizenship is Local</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5.</span><span> Democratic Habit #2: Facilitating Productive Disagreements</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6.</span><span> Democratic Habit #3: A Middle Path Between Polarization and Indifference</span></p>
<p><span>Section III. Democratizing School Structures</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #1: Participatory Budgeting</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #2: Restorative Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #3: Student Governments that Build School-Wide Civic Culture</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #4: Student Referenda and Direct Proposals to Faculty and Administration</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #5: In-School Service Hours</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion</span></p>
<p><span>References</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction</span></p>
<p><span>Section I. New Instructional Strategies for Government, Economics, and US History</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1.</span><span> Rule #1: Teach Debate as a Core American Value</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2.</span><span> Rule #2: Teach Renewal as a Core American Value</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3.</span><span> Rule #3 Teach Democracy as a Way of Life</span></p>
<p><span>Section II. Democratic Habits</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4.</span><span> Democratic Habit #1: All Citizenship is Local</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5.</span><span> Democratic Habit #2: Facilitating Productive Disagreements</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6.</span><span> Democratic Habit #3: A Middle Path Between Polarization and Indifference</span></p>
<p><span>Section III. Democratizing School Structures</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #1: Participatory Budgeting</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 8.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #2: Restorative Justice</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 9.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #3: Student Governments that Build School-Wide Civic Culture</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 10.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #4: Student Referenda and Direct Proposals to Faculty and Administration</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 11.</span><span> Practicing Citizenship Strategy #5: In-School Service Hours</span></p>
<p><span>Conclusion</span></p>
<p><span>References</span></p>
<p><span>About the Author</span></p>
<p><span>Andrew Tripodo</span><span> has spent the last ten years designing social studies curricula for charter school networks, traditional public schools, and independent schools around the world. A social entrepreneur and social studies teacher, he is the director of the Society And Me Program at the Cushman High School in Miami, Florida.</span></p>
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