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1. The Political Classroom

   Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education

   By Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Most people agree that schools should prepare young people for democratic life. Yet in the United States there has never been agreement on what types of skills, dispositions, and knowledge ought to be taught, nor even agreement on how they should be taught. Grounded in thick empirical description...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Courting Democracy

   Teaching About Constitutions, Cases, and Courts

   By Diana E. Hess

   Courting Democracy encourages social studies educators to teach civic and democratic education by harnessing the pedagogical possibilities of the controversy that permeates the legal sphere. The fundamental presumption of this innovative text is that courts engage in making decisions about...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Controversy in the Classroom

   The Democratic Power of Discussion

   By Diana E. Hess

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   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...

   Published March 22nd 2009 by Routledge