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Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life
Contributor(s): Parker, Walter C. (Author), Banks, James a. (Editor)
ISBN: 0807742724     ISBN-13: 9780807742723
Publisher: Teachers College Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.30  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2002
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Annotation: 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.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Aims & Objectives
- Social Science
- Education | Multicultural Education
Dewey: 370.115
LCCN: 2002075236
Series: Multicultural Education
Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.38" W x 8.98" (0.66 lbs) 216 pages
 
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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.