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Academic Areas & Divisions
Curriculum & Instruction
Education for democracy: Contexts, Curricula, Assessments
Walter C. Parker, ed.
(Greenwich, CT: Information Age, 2002)
http://www.infoagepub.com
There can be no democracy without democrats. Democratic modes of association are not given; they are created, and much of the creative work is undertaken
by citizens who share some understanding of what it is they are trying
to build and sustain together. These citizens are not given either. They
are not "natural"-born already grasping principles of democracy
such as toleration, equality and impartial justice, or the need for limits
on majority power. They are not born already inclined toward or capable
of deliberating public policy issues with other citizens whose beliefs
and cultures may be sharply different. These things are not, as is everywhere
too apparent, born into our genes. They are social, moral, and intellectual
attainments, and they are hard won. This is why educators are asked to
meet the challenge of educating democrats.
CONTEXTS
1. Democratic Education and the American Dream: One, Some, and All
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, and Nathan Scovronick, Princeton
University
2. Citizenship Education: Anti-political Culture and Political Education
in Britain
Elizabeth Frazer, Oxford University
3. The Irony of Exclusion: Education in Seattle During the Japanese American
Incarceration
Yoon K. Pak, University of Illinois
CURRICULA
4. Education for Democratic Citizenship: One Nation's Story
Carole L. Hahn, Emory University
5. Issue-Centered Education for Democracy through Project Citizen
John J. Patrick and William A. Nixon, Indiana University, and Thomas S.
Vontz, Rockhurst University
6. Political Tolerance, Democracy, and Adolescents
Patricia G. Avery, University of Minnesota
7. Teaching for Diversity and Unity in a Democratic Multicultural Society
James A. Banks, University of Washington
8. Educating "World Citizens": Toward Multinational Curriculum
Development
Walter C. Parker, University of Washington, Akira Ninomiya, Hiroshima
University, and John J. Cogan, University of Minnesota
ASSESSMENTS
9. An Assessment of what 14-year-olds Know & Believe about Democracy
in 28 Countries
Judith Torney-Purta and Wendy Klandl Richardson, University of Maryland
10. Classroom Assessment of Civic Discourse
David E. Harris, University of Michigan
Curriculum & Instruction
