This book explores the issues of democratic education and student responsibilities in the
schools. There are three compelling reasons to engage students to have a direct experience …

Democratic schools are schools that result from explicit attempts by educators to put in place
arrangements and opportunities that will bring democracy to life. These arrangements and …

During the past dozen years, the author has spent hundreds of hours discussing the
relationship between education and democracy in seminars with groups of school-and …

What constitutes robust and powerful democratic education is clear. Due to the hard work of
teachers, researchers, and democratic education programs, we know more about the …

In this book, seven teachers analyze their own efforts to integrate social, moral, and political
issues into the public school classroom. The volume weighs the possibilities for making …

Intended to help students learn that citizenship involves more than freedom and liberties,
this book encourages students to participate in their schools and communities, to study the …

This book examines the role teachers and schools can and should play in educating young
people to become good citizens in a democratic society. This book is about becoming and …

The Mission Hill School, founded by MacArthur Award winner Deborah Meier and
colleagues in 1997, is a small public school that has rethought almost everything about the …

Discusses results of international study to determine what 14-year-olds in the United States
and several other countries know and understand about citizenship, government, and the …

" Teaching Toward Democracy" examines the contested space of schooling and school
reform with a focus on the unique challenges and opportunities that teaching in a democratic …