Title: Education for democracy : contexts, curricula, assessments /
Authors: Parker, Walter.
Publisher: Information Age Pub.,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Citizenship Study and teaching United States; Democracy Study and teaching United States.; Multicultural education United States
Abstract: Annotation
Contents: Democratic education and the American dream / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick -- Citizenship education / Elizabeth Frazer -- The irony of exclusion / Yoon K. Pak -- Education for democratic citizenship / Carole L. Hahn -- Issue-centered education for democracy through project citizen / John J. Patrick, William A. Nixon, and Thomas S. Vontz -- Political tolerance, democracy, and adolescents / Patricia G. Avery -- Teaching for diversity and unity in a democratic multicultural society / James A. Banks -- Educating "world citizens" / Walter C. Parker, Akira Inomiya, and John Cogan -- An assessment of what 14-year-olds know and believe about democracy in 28 countries / Judith Torney-Purta and Wendy Klandl Richardson -- Classroom assessment of civic discourse / David E. Harris.