civic education and the common good Feuer, Michael J. creator text bibliography mdu 2023 monographic eng

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197 pages ; 23 cm "In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system - already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic - to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education. Although schooling alone cannot save democracy, it must play a part. Feuer introduces a framework for educator preparation that emphasizes collective action, experiential learning, and partnerships between schools and their complex constituencies. His proposed reform aims to equip teachers with an appreciation of the paradoxes of pluralism - in particular, the tensions between individual choice and social outcomes. And he offers practical suggestions for how to bring those concepts to life so that students in and out of the classroom acquire the skills, knowledge, and dispositions for enlightened democratic leadership. Adopting a definition of public education that celebrates the engagement between schools and their environments, Feuer argues for reinforced partnerships within the education system and between educators and their diverse constituents. He anticipates new collaborations between education faculty and their colleagues in the behavioral, social, and physical sciences and humanities; stronger links between schools and their complex outside environments; and improved mechanisms for global cooperation. Can Schools Save Democracy? includes lively examples of how theoretical principles can inform familiar problems and offers a hopeful path for progress toward a stronger democracy"-- Introduction -- Free to bruise : political economy and the limits of liberty -- Civics as process and product : origins and opportunities -- Curricular options : contents and discontents -- Beyond the schoolhouse : a collective responsibility -- Epilog : "commons" sense for civic education. Michael J. Feuer. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Civics Study and teaching United States Educación cívica Enseñanza Estados Unidos Democracy and education United States Educación y democracia Estados Unidos Common good Bien común LC 1091 F423c 2023 370.11/5 9781421447773 (hardcover) 1421447770 (hardcover) 2023003671 DLC 230223 20251111103302.0 22984655 eng