Democracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age

ISBN-13: 9783319407685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 222 str.

Angelo Letizia

Opis

This book provides research based strategies for teachers and teacher educators to promote democracy in the context of the information age in their classrooms. The book is comprised of eight methods. These methods focus on information location, evaluation and activation, dialogue in the classroom, understandings of discourse in popular culture and policymaking, understanding of the role of STEM disciplines in democracy, understandings of how the political process can provide meaning, new visions of justice in a globalized world, and student leadership and academic writing in the information age. All the methods call for students to create something, a paper, a project or an idea which can aid democracy. The book also outlines how teachers can evaluate these different creations.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Citizenship in the Information Age

Chapter 2: Locate-Evaluate-Activate

Chapter 3: Dialogue for Democracy

Chapter 4: STEM and Democracy

Chapter 5: Discourse for Democracy

Chapter 6: Meaningful Democracy

Chapter 7: Justice for Democracy

Chapter 8: Leadership in a Democracy

Chapter 9: Writing for Democracy

Chapter 10: The Wider Picture

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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.