Overview
- Provides teachers and teacher educators with methods that further civic educational and democracy based educational efforts
- Examines K-12 education through lens of the Information Age and how it has altered conceptions of citizenship
- Provides teachers and teacher educators with multiple methods to foster democratic considerations in the classroom
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About this book
This book presents educators with research-based strategies to promote civic education in their classrooms. Going beyond theory and measures of achievement, these methods focus on information location, evaluation and activation, dialogue in the classroom, understandings of discourse in popular culture and policymaking, and understanding the role of STEM disciplines in democracy. The author also furthers considerations of how the political process can provide meaning and new visions of justice in a globalized world, and advance student leadership and academic writing in the information age. As the world faces unprecedented levels of poverty, wealth disparity, environmental destruction, and ethical questions regarding biotechnology, the United States needs knowledgeable citizens to effectively deal with these issues. Letizia provides teachers and teacher educators with the needed methods to foster these types of democratic considerations.
Reviews
“This volume recommends a series of research based strategies for K-12 educators that will promote social, emotional, and civic education. It also raises profound questions about the essential goals for K-12 teaching and learning. The foundation for an engaged democratic citizenry has always been social, emotional, and civic as well as cognitive education and this volume supports and furthers this foundational goal.” (Jonathan Cohen, President, National School Climate Center, USA, and Adjunct Professor in Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Angelo J. Letizia is Assistant Professor of Graduate Education at Newman University in Kansas, USA. His research interests include student development theory and civic education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age
Authors: Angelo J. Letizia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40769-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40768-5Published: 27 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82178-8Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40769-2Published: 19 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education