Speaking to the need to move beyond traditional formulations, this textbook presents radical visions for transforming civic education in the United States.
Drawing on the experience of educators and scholarsincluding those rooted in feminist, queer, abolitionist, global, and race-conscious perspectivesthis work offers new, practical ideas for civic education reform. Responding to recent political crises, many scholars, educators, and public commentators have called for a rebirth of civic education, but these all are grounded in the premise that the goal of civic education should be to teach students about the U.S. Constitutional system and how to operate within it. This book argues that the U.S. governmental system, including the Constitution, is infused with racist and anti-democratic premises and procedures. It asks: How can we seek a new pathone that is more democratic, more equitable, and more humane? A diverse range of leading civic educators, who are willing not just to push the boundaries of civic education but to operate outside its assumptions altogether, explore what future possibilities for civic education might look like and how these innovative ideas could be implemented in the classroom.
Combining theory with practice, The Future of Civic Education will be important reading for those studying or researching in social studies methods, social studies issues, citizenship, and civic education. It will also be beneficial to social studies teachers at elementary and secondary levels, as well as policymakers and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
Speaking to the need to move beyond traditional formulations, this textbook presents radical visions for transforming civic education in the United States.
1. Replacing civic education Elizabeth Yeager Washington and Keith C.
Barton
2. Revealing is healing: toward the development of a history education
reconciliation commission LaGarrett J. King and Richard D. Williams
3. Why
dont you go free Mumia?: Learning about and from U.S. political prisoners
Jillian Ford
4. We all we got: Black teachers helping Black students through
civic estrangement Kristen E. Duncan
5. No gods, no masters: practicing
freedom through anarchist civics Alexandria Hollett
6. Transcendent civic
education: global comparative explorations of hope and wicked problems
Li-Ching Ho, Tricia Seow, and Qian Hui Tan
7. A hope for civic education:
shared humanity and sustainability as guideposts Kathryn E. Engebretson
8.
Renewing democracy: putting empathy first Jennifer Hauver
9. Social studies
education in a backsliding democracy: more civics or democratic dreaming?
Alexander Cuenca
Elizabeth Yeager Washington is Professor and Coordinator of Secondary Education and Social Studies Education at The University of Florida. Her research focuses on civic education, democratic citizenship education, and the teaching of difficult history and controversial issues.
Keith C. Barton is Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana University, United States. His research focuses on teaching, learning, and curriculum in history and social studies in the United States and internationally. He is co-author, with Li-Ching Ho, of Curriculum for Justice and Harmony: Deliberation, Knowledge, and Action in Social and Civic Education (Routledge).
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