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While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Levinson, Meira
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Series:Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ; 13.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Citizenship > Study and teaching (Middle school) > United States.
Democracy and education > United States.
Démocratie et éducation > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Aims & Objectives.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Democracy and education.
Middle school
Politische Bildung
Rasrelationer > Förenta Staterna.
Minoritetsundervisning > Förenta Staterna.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The civic empowerment gap
  • "At school I talk straight" : race talk and civic empowerment
  • "You have the right to struggle" : constructing historical counternarrative
  • Rethinking heroes and role models
  • How to soar in a world you've never seen : making citizenship visible in schools
  • The case for action civics
  • Democracy, accountability, and education.

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