Hess / McAvoy The Political Classroom

Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-57502-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Social Thought

Helping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy argue that teachers will make better professional judgments about these issues if they aim toward creating "political classrooms," which engage students in deliberations about questions that ask, "How should we live together?"

Based on the findings from a large, mixed-method study about discussions of political issues within high school classrooms, The Political Classroom presents in-depth and engaging cases of teacher practice. Paying particular attention to how political polarization and social inequality affect classroom dynamics, Hess and McAvoy promote a coherent plan for providing students with a nonpartisan political education and for improving the quality of classroom deliberations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hess, Diana E.

McAvoy, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Context, Evidence, and Aims

Part II: Cases of Practice

Part III: Professional Judgment

Über Autor(innen)

Diana E. Hess is Senior Vice President of the Spencer Foundation and Professor of Social Studies Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Paula McAvoy is a philosopher of education and an Associate Program Officer of the Spencer Foundation, USA.