Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life (Multicultural Education Series) - Softcover

Parker, Walter C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807742724 ISBN 13: 9780807742723

Verlag: Teachers' College Press, 2002

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Críticas

""At a moment in time when our connection to the nation seems superficial and jingoistic, Walter Parker offers us a vehicle to reach our ideal of deliberative, committed civic participation for every citizen. This book explores the hard work of citizen-making in a diverse and complex society where individual and group interests often are in conflict. Parker makes us realize that in a democracy 'public' is not a dirty word and schooling should not be punishment." ""This book deals in an engaging and thought-provoking way with both social realities and democratic possibilities--exactly what I try to do in my classroom."

Reseña del editor

In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity. This scholarly yet accessible work: Bridges the widening gap between multicultural education and civic education. Provides powerful teaching strategies that educators can use to draw children creatively and productively into a way of life that protects and nurtures cultural pluralism and racial equity. Explains the unity-diversity confusion that is found in popular media as well as in multicultural- and citizenship-education initiatives. Defines deliberative discussion and explores its promise as the centerpiece of democratic education in schools, both elementary and secondary.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Teachers' College Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0807742724
• ISBN 13: 9780807742723
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216