Sentences with phrase «democratic citizenship»

Supporting these efforts in democratic citizenship education is the second thing we could all do to undo the harm of the hate rising as a result of this campaign.

In order to model democratic citizenship, teachers need to be treated like democratic members in their schools, with voice and influence outside of their classroom.

Education isn't just about maximizing student choice and catering to «consumer» interests; it is about fostering democratic citizenship, which is why all taxpayers fund public schools.

As school leaders, we must take seriously our obligations to comply with the law, educate our students and communities, and model democratic citizenship and the protection of Constitutional rights.

European donors should persist with a localist approach in Syria, but efforts should generate an inclusive notion of democratic citizenship rather than just support the liberal - moderate opposition.

Evidence for this claim is mixed, but it is perhaps important to keep asking the question: How far do workplace structures contribute — positively or negatively — to attitudes and capacities that are good for democratic citizenship more widely?

If in democratic citizenship we take responsibility for government, we can not rush the Sermon on the Mount through Congress.

Zhao, X. & Haste, H. (2012) Promoting democratic citizenship among rural women: A Chinese NGO's two models.

To restructure the incentives of the market so as to favor long - term investment over short - term consumption, or to change the institutionalization of the corporation to accountable democratic citizenship, does not at all mean to centralize industry under a government ministry.

So America, at its best, is about people who somehow see democratic citizenship as both a means and an end and so avoids the extremes of endlessly meddlesome democratic tyranny and apolitical libertarian indifference to the souls of their fellow citizens and creatures.

It is no accident that the seven states that prohibit collective bargaining for teachers are mostly in the Deep South, the region of the country historically most hostile to extending democratic citizenship to all Americans.

Since public schools are regulated and funded through democratic politics, they seem to be the ideal locale for education aimed at democratic citizenship.

(Brennan, 1996) While some originally intended for public education to provide basic learning for successful democratic citizenship, others saw schools mainly as a way to support the economic workforce.

Examples of the instructional and democratic citizenship benefits of developing these economic reasoning skills in students include: sharpening critical thinking and critical literacy skills; entertaining multiple perspectives; better understanding current events; laying the groundwork for authentic discussions and civil debates; casting informed votes; and making students» thinking explicit for assessment purposes.

The latter statistic represents the «pipeline» of those ready for college and the 21st century workplace, is a more realistic measure of educational success and the challenge we face than any «dropout» calculation might indicate, and does not bode well, not only for our economic competitiveness, but for the future of responsible democratic citizenship.

Throughout US history, teachers (especially black teachers) led struggles for justice: guiding freedman in the transition from the agrarian to the industrial after Emancipation, leading and modeling democratic citizenship in protests during the civil rights movement.

Social studies teachers» use of the Internet to foster democratic citizenship.

There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to «new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence.»

Educate for democratic citizenship to increase student voice and participation in school life.

Nussbaum recognizes that prosperity is inadequate as a final end for human beings and as a goal for their education, but she seems to think that democratic citizenship is such an end.

We are blessed with a uniquely Christian motivation to fully live out our democratic citizenship.

Mouffe, C. (1996) «Democratic citizenship and the political community».

The goal of the project is to develop schools that model democratic citizenship and teach students — and adults — to use their First Amendment rights responsibly.

Are indicators such as college graduation, productive employment, democratic citizenship, social responsibility or positive parenting also plausible measures of success?

One recurring theme in the conference was the idea that democratic citizenship can not simply be taught as another subject in the curriculum.

Recognition of the «interdependence of the world» is essential to reformulating the civic mission of American education, writes R. Freeman Butts in The Morality of Democratic Citizenship: Goals for Civic Education in the Republic's Third Century.

Future forums will deal with such topics as teacher quality; communication between educators and the media; educating for democratic citizenship; issues related to the call for scientifically based research; and living with and educating about our deepest differences.

The school's reward system demonstrates that it values diversity, civility, service, and democratic citizenship.

Third, high school diversity contributes to furthering the goals of democratic citizenship.

She conducts research, graduate studies and teacher education on the politics and practice of democratic citizenship, equity and conflict / peacemaking education.