Teaching Democracy

Unity and Diversity in Public Life

von Walter C Parker

216 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9780807742723
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2002
• Größe: 228 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Teachers College Press