Education for democracy : contexts, curricula, assessments
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Education for democracy : contexts, curricula, assessments
（Research in social education, v. 2）
Information Age Publishing, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Part of the ""Research in Social Education"" series, this text is divided into three parts: contexts; curricula; and assessments. It covers such topics as the irony of exclusion; teaching tolerance; and multicultural citizenship education.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Walter C. Parker, University of Washington, Part I: Contects. Education and the American Dream, Nathan Scovronick, Jennifer Hochschild, Princeton University. Similar but Different: Civic Education in England and the U.S., Elizabeth Frazer, Oxford University. The Irony of Exclusion: Education in Seattle During the Japanese American Incarceration, Yoon Pak, University of Illionis. Part II: Curricula. Democratic Citizenship Education in the US: A Nation-wide Case Study, Carole Hahn, Emory University. The Issue-centered/Discipline-centered Tension in Curriculum Development, John Patrick, Thomas Vontz, Indiana University. Teaching Tolerance, Patricia Avery, University of Minnesota. Multicultural Citizenship Education, James A. Banks, University of Washington. Educating ""World Citizens"": A Multinational Curriculum Proposal, Walter Parker, University of Washington, Akira Ninomiya, Hiroshima University, and John Cogan, University of Minnesota. Part III: Assessments. What 14-Year-olds Know about Democracy in 22 Nations: IEA Clvics, Judith Tomey-Purta, Wendy Richardson, University of Maryland. Classroom Assessment of Civic Discourse, David Harris, Michigan Public Schools.
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