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Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life

ISBN: 9780807742723 | 0807742724
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Pr
Pub. Date: 11/1/2002

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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. Book jacket.

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.
Series Forewordix
James A. Banks
Prefacexv
Introductionxvii
From Idiocy to Citizenship
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Idiocy
2(6)
Citizenship
8(4)
Conclusion
12(2)
Democracy and Difference
14(18)
The Dominant Conception of Citizenship Education: Difference as Dissolution
16(4)
``Advanced'' Ideas about Democracy
20(8)
Conclusion
28(4)
Toward Enlightened Political Engagement
32(22)
Enlightened Political Engagement
33(1)
Society and Enlightened Political Engagement
34(7)
School and Enlightened Political Engagement
41(11)
Conclusion
52(2)
Promoting Justice: Two Views
54(22)
Just Individuals
57(8)
Just Societies
65(4)
Cutting Through Conventional Wisdom
69(3)
Conclusion
72(4)
Can We Talk?
76(25)
Increasing Interaction
78(1)
Fostering Deliberation
79(7)
Striving for Inclusion and Genuine Exchange
86(14)
Conclusion
100(1)
Making Publics, Finding Problems, Imagining Solutions
101(24)
Deliberative Curricula
102(5)
A Model for Deliberation in High School
107(14)
Reflecting on the Model
121(3)
Conclusion
124(1)
Learning to Lead Discussion
125(25)
Discussion
128(4)
Seminar
132(9)
Deliberation
141(7)
Conclusion
148(2)
Access to a Non-Idiotic Education
150(13)
Aspiration and Denial
150(5)
Access for Whom?
155(2)
Access to What?
157(4)
Conclusion
161(2)
Notes163(4)
References167(16)
Index183(8)
About the Author191
Walter C. Parker is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington, Seattle


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