Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty - Place-Responsive Learning (Hardcover)

The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts - humanitarian, financial, and environmental - is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue with education professionals towards the reconstruction of education and by extension our social, cultural and political institutions. This book is the first monograph on philosophy with children to focus on democratic education. The book examines the ways in which education can either perpetuate or disrupt harmful social and political practices and narratives at the classroom level. It is a rethinking of civics and citizenship education as place-responsive learning aimed at understanding and improving human-environment relations to not only face an uncertain world, but also to face the inevitable challenges of democratic disagreement beyond merely promoting pluralism, tolerance and agreement. When viewed as a way of life democracy becomes both a goal and a teaching method for developing civic literacy to enable students to articulate and apprehend more than just the predominant political narrative, but to reshape it. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, political science, education, democratic theory, civics and citizenship studies, and peace education research.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Gilbert Burgh • Simone Thornton
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-56509-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Education > Philosophy of education Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	0-367-56509-9
Barcode:	9780367565091

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