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Learning how to hope : reviving democracy through our schools and civil society / Sarah M. Stitzlein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stitzlein, Sarah Marie, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy and education--United States.
- Democracy and education.
- Citizenship--Study and teaching--United States.
- Citizenship.
- Hope.
- Civil society--United States.
- Civil society.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- United States--Politics and government--2017-.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Offering an informed call to citizen engagement, Stitzlein directly addresses presidential campaigns, including how to select candidates who support citizens in enacting and sustaining hope. Drawing on examples from American history and pragmatist philosophy, this text explains how hope can be cultivated in schools and sustained through action in our communities - it describes what hope is, why it matters to democracy, and how to teach it.
- Contents:
- Hope in America?
- Looking back to move forward
- Hope as Habits
- Hope and democracy
- Teaching hope, not grit
- Learning how to hope.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2019).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-006266-5
- 0-19-009371-4
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