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

Walter C. Parker

ISBN 10: 0807742724 / ISBN 13: 9780807742723

Verlag: Teachers College Press, 2002

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Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Walter C. Parker is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in ...
Verlag: Teachers College Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Good