Education for democracy
Subtitle: contexts, curricula, assessments
By: edited by Walter C. Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Walter.
Series: Research in social education -- v. 2.
Publisher: Information Age Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Democracy -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Multicultural education -- United States.
Description: Annotation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Democratic education and the American dream / Jennifer Hochschild and Nathan Scovronick; title: Citizenship education / Elizabeth Frazer; title: The irony of exclusion / Yoon K. Pak; title: Education for democratic citizenship / Carole L. Hahn; title: Issue-centered education for democracy through project citizen / John J. Patrick, William A. Nixon, and Thomas S. Vontz; title: Political tolerance, democracy, and adolescents / Patricia G. Avery; title: Teaching for diversity and unity in a democratic multicultural society / James A. Banks; title: Educating "world citizens" / Walter C. Parker, Akira Inomiya, and John Cogan; title: An assessment of what 14-year-olds know and believe about democracy in 28 countries / Judith Torney-Purta and Wendy Klandl Richardson; title: Classroom assessment of civic discourse / David E. Harris.