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Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty : Place-Responsive Learning.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Burgh, Gilbert.
Contributor:
Thornton, Simone.
Series:
Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource (236 pages)
Place of Publication:
Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Educating democracy
About this book
Notes
Chapter 1: Citizenship as an active learning process
Democracy, citizenship, and identity
Communitarian criticisms of liberal citizenship
Feminist criticisms of liberal individualism
A radical theory of democratic citizenship
Cultural citizenship
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Teaching civics and citizenship
Three conceptions of education
Teaching as transmission: The banking model
Teaching as transaction: Constructing knowledge
Teaching as transformation: Developing meaningful lives
Teaching values in a changing society: Can teachers be neutral?
Education as reconstruction
Chapter 3: Democracy, curriculum, and pedagogy
Education and democracy
Education for democracy
Teaching values
Political education
Critical thinking as a citizenship competence
Democratic education
Freedom-based education
Communication and deliberation
Note
Chapter 4: Educational philosophy
Philosophy for children
The curriculum
The community of inquiry
The dual role of the teacher
A reconstructionist and pragmatist interpretation of the community of inquiry
A Deweyan reconstruction of philosophy for children
Chapter 5: Knowledge construction and knowledge exclusion
Philosophy: Collaborative inquiry or adversarial argumentation?
Learning to doubt and doubting to learn
Confronting Descartes
Breaking habits: Between a rock and a crocodile's jaws
Experiencing the absurd: Lucid teaching in the classroom.
Epistemic violence and peace education: Turning conflict into inquiry
Children should be seen and not heard: The impact of epistemic violence
Epistemic issues in the classroom
Developing traitorous identities
Chapter 6: Democratic education as place-responsive learning
Place-responsive democratic education
Pedagogical possibilities of place
Pedagogical stories from environmental education centres
Indigenous notions of place
Case study
Democratic education, bureaucracy, and political change
References
Index.
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ISBN:
9781000474152
1000474151
OCLC:
1276860017

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