Democracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age

• Main Author: Letizia, Angelo J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Teaching.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

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 cultu...

Table of Contents:

• 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.