In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies
like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been
for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching
and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers
choose to avoid controversial issues altogether in preference for
"safe" knowledge and "safe" teaching practices. Diana Hess
interrupts this dangerous trend by providing readers a spirited and
detailed argument for why curricula and teaching based on
controversial issues are truly crucial at this time. Through rich
empirical research from real classrooms throughout the nation, she
demonstrates why schools have the potential to be particularly
powerful sites for democratic education and why this form of
education must include sustained attention to authentic and
controversial political issues that animate political communities.
The purposeful inclusion of controversial issues in the school
curriculum, when done wisely and well, can communicate by example
the essence of what makes communities democratic while
simultaneously building the skills and dispositions that young
people will need to live in and improve such communities.
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