Critical civic literacy
Subtitle: a reader
By: Joseph L. DeVitis, editor
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 505
ISBN-13: 9781433111716; 9781433111723; 9781453901397
Subjects: Study and teaching (Secondary); Critical pedagogy; Civics; Democracy and education; Critical thinking; Curricula; Secondary Education
Description: Do we live in a democracy? Have we ever practiced democratic education? Will our children and grandchildren inherit a sane or sick society and political order? Those are some of the profound questions that this book tackles, within a broad and evocative conversation on civic literacy in America. Amid calls for academic standardization and high-stakes testing, civic education, once a cornerstone of pubic schools, has been relegated to a tertiary space. The eloquent voices in this text articulate critical perspectives on citizenship education because they realize the future of our commonwealth may well be at stake. -- Back Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The tangled web we weave: critical literacy and critical thinking / Cara M. Mulcahy; title: Critical civic literacy in schools: adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum; title: Civic (mis)education and critical civic literacy / Elizabeth Yeager Washington & Ray W. Washington; title: In the name of democracy: federal policy and civic achievement in the standards era / Lawrence C. Stedman; title: Civics in the social studies: critical democratic citizenship education in a corporatized hyperreality / Joe L. Kincheloe; title: Politics and patriotism in education / Joel Westheimer; title: Is patriotism good for democracy?: a study of high school seniors' patriotic commitments / Joseph Kahne & Ellen Middaugh; title: Democracy's promise and the politics of worldliness: implications for public intellectuals / Henry A. Giroux; title: A new paradigm for citizenship education: the personal-political approach / Elizabeth E. Heilman; title: Critical civic literacy and the building of community for a globalized world / Barry M. Franklin & Steven Camicia; title: Critical civic engagement from inside an Australian school and its community put at a disadvantage / John Smyth; title: Social control and the pursuit of dangerous citizenship / E. Wayne Ross & Kevin D. Vinson; title: The work of the criticalist: critical civic literacy and intervention in social class processes / Aaron M. Kuntz; title: Mediating education and promoting a progressive civics curriculum: pedagogies of philosophy, dissent, and democracy / Aaron Cooley; title: Negotiating a parallel curriculum: making space for critical civic literacy in the social studies classroom / Christopher Leahey; title: A core curriculum for civic literacy? / Donald Lazere; title: Critical civic literacy and the arts / Neil O. Houser; title: Lessons in conversation: why critical civic engagement requires talking about religion, and what that means for public schools / Robert Kunzman; title: Attempted cultural baptism: the bible literacy project's impact on civic engagement / Pamela K. Smith & Dianne Smith; title: The usefulness of pragmatic interpretation in civic education / Andrew Nunn McKnight; title: Political liberalism and civic education / Barry L. Bull; title: Rethinking the state: responding to the educational, economic, and environmental crises / David Hursh; title: Democracy: a red ideal / Jason M. C. Price; title: Delimiting the debate: the Fordham's attack on democratic values / Christopher Leahey; title: Civic illiteracy and American history textbooks: the U.S.-Vietnam War / John Marciano; title: Critical civic literacy: thinking systemically about peace education / Joseph Rayle; title: The allure of corporate deception and greenwashing: why every rose has its thorn / Cori Jakubiak & Michael P. Mueller; title: Opportunities: how to more effectively shape the next generation of human beings and citizens / Kristi Fragnoli & David Epstein; title: Writing to read: critical civic literacy at an alternative high school / Beth Hatt & Paul Parkinson; title: The civics of language diversity: human rights, citizenship, and English-only / John E. Petrovic; title: The role of service-learning in critical thinking / Nancy P. Kraft; title: Social justice enacted: critical civic engagement in the gay straight alliance / J.B. Mayo, Jr; title: Framing adolescents, their schools and culture: contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-DeVitis; title: The futility of ideological conflict in teacher education / Daniel P. Liston; title: The "theology of neutrality" and the "middle-class" curriculum of teacher education: threats to critical civic literacy / Joseph C. Wegwert; title: (Re)imaging activism: educating teachers for change / Jessica Heybach & Eric C. Sheffield; title: Renewing democracy in schools / Nel Noddings.