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OverviewHow can education protect and strengthen democracy? In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system—already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic—to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education. Although schooling alone cannot save democracy, it must play a part. Feuer introduces a framework for educator preparation that emphasizes collective action, experiential learning, and partnerships between schools and their complex constituencies. His proposed reform aims to equip teachers with an appreciation of the paradoxes of pluralism—in particular, the tensions between individual choice and social outcomes. And he offers practical suggestions for how to bring those concepts to life so that students in and out of the classroom acquire the skills, knowledge, and dispositions for enlightened democratic leadership. Adopting a definition of public education that celebrates the engagement between schools and their environments, Feuer argues for reinforced partnerships within the education system and between educators and their diverse constituents. He anticipates new collaborations between education faculty and their colleagues in the behavioral, social, and physical sciences and humanities; stronger links between schools and their complex outside environments; and improved mechanisms for global cooperation. Can Schools Save Democracy? includes lively examples of how theoretical principles can inform familiar problems and offers a hopeful path for progress toward a stronger democracy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael J. Feuer (Graduate School of Education and Human Development, GWU)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9781421447773ISBN 10: 1421447770 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 02 January 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Introduction [Prolog] 1. Free to Bruise: Political Economy and the Limits of Liberty 2. Civics as Process and Product: Origins and Opportunities 3. Curricular Options: Contents and Discontents 4. Beyond the Schoolhouse: A Collective Responsibility Epilog: ""Commons"" Sense for Civic Education References Acknowledgments Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationMichael J. Feuer (WASHINGTON, DC) has been dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University since 2010, following a 25-year career at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Academy of Sciences. He has held faculty positions at Drexel University and Georgetown, and is a past president of the National Academy of Education. Feuer is the author of The Rising Price of Objectivity: Philanthropy, Government, and the Future of Education Research and Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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