Education for Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion to Build Knowledge and Voice Parker Walter C
Education for Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion to Build Knowledge and Voice Parker Walter C Our democracy is in crisis. In this book, Walter Parker shows why and how civic education can…
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Education for Liberal Democracy: Using Classroom Discussion to Build Knowledge and Voice Parker Walter C
Our democracy is in crisis. In this book, Walter Parker shows why and how civic education can help. Both political trust and a shared standard of truth are broken.
He illustrates how classroom discussion, alongside concept formation and deep reading, expand students' minds while developing their ability to speak with others and form opinions. Offering a centrist approach suitable for a polarized society, Parker focuses on two linked curriculum objectives: disciplinary knowledge and voice. When children come to school, they emerge from the private chrysalis of babyhood and kin to interact with a diverse student body along with teachers, curriculum, instruction, and the school's unique mission: education.
Parker argues that these assets make school the ideal place to teach young people the liberal arts of studying and discussing public issues and academic controversies, both in and