Description
Book SynopsisDemocracy is in crisis. Both political trust and a shared standard of truth are broken. In this book, Walter Parker shows why and how a civic education can help. Offering a centrist approach suitable for a polarized society, Parker focuses on two linked curriculum objectives: disciplinary knowledge and voice.
Trade Review"Walter C. Parker interweaves political philosophy and pedagogy to present a deep and useful primer for building a liberal democracy through civic education."—Theory and Research in Education
Table of Contents
- Contents (Tentative)
- Foreword, by James A. Banks
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: A Centrist Approach to Civic Education
- 1. Introduction
- Liberal and Illiberal Democracy
- Knowledge and Voice
- Curriculum and Instruction
- An Autobiographical Note
- Overview of Chapters
- Conclusion
- 2. Teaching Academic Controversies
- Cooperative Learning and SAC
- The Revised Model
- Conclusion
- 3. Teaching Against Idiocy
- Dodging Puberty
- Schools and Idiocy
- Schools Are Public Places
- Three Keys
- The Social Curriculum
- The Academic Curriculum
- The Three Rs?
- Part II: Toward Deeper Civic Learning
- 4. Concept Development
- Teaching and Learning Concepts
- Classifying
- Some Examples
- Conclusion
- 5. Reinventing the High School Government Course
- Method and Design Principles
- Curriculum
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- 6. Listening to Strangers
- Seminar and Deliberation
- Listening to Strangers
- Political Friendship
- Listening to Strangers at School
- Practices of Listening to Strangers
- Conclusion
- 7. What Is Justice?
- Just Individuals
- Just Societies
- Cutting Through Conventional Wisdom
- Conclusion
- Part III: Global Civic Education
- 8. Educating World Citizens
- National Security
- Marginal Voices
- A Solution on the Loose
- 9. Human Rights Education's Curriculum Problem
- Problem: Access to What?
- Solution: Toward an Episteme for HRE
- Conclusion
- 10. The Right to Have Rights
- A Curriculum Proposal
- Rationale
- The Immigrant Labor Paradox
- Classroom Activities
- Instructional Supports
- Conclusion
- 11. Afterword: Cultivating Judgment
- Classroom Discussion
- Uncoerced Decisions
- The Social Studies
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
