Promoting Engaged Citizenship and Informing Public Debate: A Two-Fold Argument for Contemporary Issues in Education as a Social Science Elective

Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc 46 (1):25-43 (2010)
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Abstract

A course in contemporary education issues is proposed as a valuable general education vehicle for citizenship education. Such a course offers the advantages of being inherently political and interdisciplinary, and relevant to students? life experience. Moreover, such a course would help satisfy the academy's responsibility to inform public debate about privatizing public education, an issue of national concern

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The Public and Its Problems.T. V. Smith - 1929 - Philosophical Review 38 (2):177.
Public Education: An Autopsy.Myron Lieberman - 1994 - British Journal of Educational Studies 42 (3):314-316.

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