In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.
This scholarly yet accessible work:
| ISBN: | 9780807742723 |
| Publication date: | 22nd November 2002 |
| Author: | Walter Parker |
| Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 191 pages |
| Series: | Multicultural Education Series |
| Genres: |
Teaching of a specific subject Educational: Citizenship and social education Ethnic groups and multicultural studies |
In Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.This scholarly yet accessible work:Bridges the widening gap between multicultural education and civic education.Provides powerful teaching strategies that educators can use to draw children creatively and productively into a way of life that protects and nurtures cultural pluralism and racial equity.Explains the unity-diversity confusion that is found in popular media as well as in multicultural- and citizenship-education initiatives.Defines deliberative discussion and explores its promise as the centerpiece of democratic education in schools, both elementary and secondary.
Teaching Democracy features in the following genres: Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Citizenship and social education, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
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Teaching Democracy was written by Walter Parker and published by Teachers College Press
Teaching Democracy has 191 pages
Yes it is part of Multicultural Education Series series