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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