Preparing for Citizenship: Teaching Youth to Live Democratically - Softcover

Mosher, Ralph; Kenny, Robert A.; Garrod, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0275950964 ISBN 13: 9780275950965

Verlag: Praeger, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Mosher Ralph Kenny Jr Robert A Garrod Andrew

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Críticas

"Mosher and his colleagues have chronicled an exceptional study of the application of the newest research in developmental psychology to the oldest problem in American education: preparing citizens for active participation in a democratic society."-Richard L. Hayes, College of Education, The University of Georgia "An indispensable book for those seriously interested in soundly researched educational practice. A refreshing and energizing return to research committed to imaginative educational ideas grounded in the democratic vision."-David Purpel University of North Carolina, Greensboro, author of The Moral and Spiritual Crisis in Education .,."Takes developmental identity formation and its necessary implications for democratic citizenship seriously and treats the subject with the intellectual and moral respect it so deserves. It makes visible the power and inadequacy of the 'hidden curriculum' evident in most schooling and suggests that rather than leaving citizenship education to chance, we do it with explicit, powerful and ethical purpose."-Richard Hersh, President, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Reseña del editor

Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in school programs or practices; their actualization falls far short of their ascribed importance. The authors argue that critical opportunities for democratic development occur in the day-to-day life of the schools. It follows that all grade levels should participate in the creation of the constitution of the school and classrooms, the justice structure of the school (its disciplinary code, norms, and adjudication), the policy-making of the school, and in the understanding of the school as a social laboratory. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of such a program by reporting some two decades of applied research on democratic schools which have realized some of these outcomes.

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• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0275950964
• ISBN 13: 9780275950965
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216