Teaching Democracy : Unity and Diversity in Public Life
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Multicultural Education Series
ISBN-10
0807742724
ISBN-13
9780807742723
Publisher
Teachers' College Press
Imprint
Teachers' College Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 22nd, 2002
Print length
216 Pages
Weight
310 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 22.90 x 1.40 cms
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Here, Walter Parker offers a contribution to the debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favour a cultural literacy approach. Parker demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.
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:
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.
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