Critical civic literacy : a reader / edited by Joseph L. DeVitis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeVitis, Joseph L.

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Critical thinking.

Civics--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Civics.

United States.

Civics--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching (Secondary)--United States.

Education, Secondary--Curricula--United States.

Education, Secondary.

Education, Secondary--Curricula.

Democracy and education--United States.

Democracy and education.

Physical Description:

xiii, 505 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, [2011]

Summary:

The critical literacy approach to education examines the underlying assumptions of various texts encountered in academia and everyday life, such as school curricula, government legislation, corporate policies, and the media, in order to uncover the connections between power, knowledge, language, ideology, and social justice. In this collection of 37 readings, contributors in education, social studies, and public policy emphasize the importance of critical literacy in the renewal of civic education in public schools. Some topics discussed include promoting a progressive civics curriculum, the Bible Literacy Project's impact on civic engagement, the role of service learning in critical thinking, and the middle-class curriculum of teacher education. While the book is written for educators and policymakers, it is also accessible to interested citizens and students. DeVitis teaches educational foundations at Old Dominion University. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The tangled web we weave: critical literacy and critical thinking / Cara M. Mulcahy

Critical civic literacy in schools: adolescents seeking to understand and improve the(ir) world / Kenneth Teitelbaum

Civic (mis)education and critical civic literacy / Elizabeth Yeager Washington & Ray W. Washington

In the name of democracy: federal policy and civic achievement in the standards era / Lawrence C. Stedman

Civics in the social studies: critical democratic citizenship education in a corporatized hyperreality / Joe L. Kincheloe

Politics and patriotism in education / Joel Westheimer

Is patriotism good for democracy?: a study of high school seniors' patriotic commitments / Joseph Kahne & Ellen Middaugh

Democracy's promise and the politics of worldliness: implications for public intellectuals / Henry A. Giroux

A new paradigm for citizenship education: the personal-political approach / Elizabeth E. Heilman

Critical civic literacy and the building of community for a globalized world / Barry M. Franklin & Steven Camicia

Critical civic engagement from inside an Australian school and its community put at a disadvantage / John Smyth

Social control and the pursuit of dangerous citizenship / E. Wayne Ross & Kevin D. Vinson

The work of the criticalist: critical civic literacy and intervention in social class processes / Aaron M. Kuntz

Mediating education and promoting a progressive civics curriculum: pedagogies of philosophy, dissent, and democracy / Aaron Cooley

Negotiating a parallel curriculum: making space for critical civic literacy in the social studies classroom / Christopher Leahey

A core curriculum for civic literacy? / Donald Lazere

Critical civic literacy and the arts / Neil O. Houser

Lessons in conversation: why critical civic engagement requires talking about religion, and what that means for public schools / Robert Kunzman

Attempted cultural baptism: the bible literacy project's impact on civic engagement / Pamela K. Smith & Dianne Smith

The usefulness of pragmatic interpretation in civic education / Andrew Nunn McKnight

Political liberalism and civic education / Barry L. Bull

Rethinking the state: responding to the educational, economic, and environmental crises / David Hursh

Democracy: a red ideal / Jason M. C. Price

Delimiting the debate: the Fordham's attack on democratic values / Christopher Leahey

Civic illiteracy and American history textbooks: the U.S.-Vietnam War / John Marciano

Critical civic literacy: thinking systemically about peace education / Joseph Rayle

The allure of corporate deception and greenwashing: why every rose has its thorn / Cori Jakubiak & Michael P. Mueller

Opportunities: how to more effectively shape the next generation of human beings and citizens / Kristi Fragnoli & David Epstein

Writing to read: critical civic literacy at an alternative high school / Beth Hatt & Paul Parkinson

The civics of language diversity: human rights, citizenship, and English-only / John E. Petrovic

The role of service-learning in critical thinking / Nancy P. Kraft

Social justice enacted: critical civic engagement in the gay straight alliance / J.B. Mayo, Jr

Framing adolescents, their schools and culture: contested worldviews / Linda Irwin-DeVitis

The futility of ideological conflict in teacher education / Daniel P. Liston

The "theology of neutrality" and the "middle-class" curriculum of teacher education: threats to critical civic literacy / Joseph C. Wegwert

(Re)imaging activism: educating teachers for change / Jessica Heybach & Eric C. Sheffield

Renewing democracy in schools / Nel Noddings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1433111713

9781433111716

9781433111723

1433111721

9781453901397

1453901396

OCLC:

731372860

Publisher Number:

99945108894