Civic Education in Polarized Times
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Civic Education in Polarized Times

NOMOS LXVI

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eBook - ePub

Civic Education in Polarized Times

NOMOS LXVI

About this book

Reveals the possibilities and challenges of civic education in circumstances of extreme polarization, and how civic learning and political divisiveness can interact and influence each other As fears about polarization—and its contribution to democratic crisis and corrosion—rise, many people have posited civic education as a possible remedy. In a time of increasing political polarization, what should the goals of civic education be, and how should they be implemented? In the latest installment of the NOMOS series, Eric Beerbohm and Elizabeth Beaumont bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars across philosophy, politics, and law, inviting us to think deeply about the complex promises and pitfalls of civic education.Contributors raise a variety of crucial considerations not only about how to educate citizens in a polarized era but also for a polarized era. What types of civic learning hold promise for preparing students to navigate their way through a political landscape of escalating hostile factions, distrust, truth decay, and disagreement about basic facts? Could or should civic education attempt to reduce or counteract polarization, or should it focus on other aims?Beaumont and Beerbohm show us that the dynamics and circumstances of polarization do not stop at the schoolhouse gates, but bring new urgency together with added pressures and constraints to all civic education. As political polarization continues to intensify across the globe, this riveting volume illuminates the significance, the possibilities, and the challenges of civic education in the contemporary era.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Civic Education in, and for, a Deeply Polarized Era
  7. 1. Democratic Civic Education and Democratic Law
  8. 2. Civic Education and Polarized Politics: Transition, Critique, and Dissent
  9. 3. Civic Education and Democracy’s Flaws
  10. 4. Civic Education, Students’ Rights, and the Supreme Court
  11. 5. Can Driver’s Civic Education Model Circumvent Partisanship?
  12. 6. Race, Equity, and Civic Education
  13. 7. Moving Beyond the “Poitier Effect”: Examining the Potential to Advance Civic Respect through Cross-Community Teaching
  14. 8. The Challenges of Thick Diversity, Polarization, Debiasing, and Tokenization for Cross-Group Teaching
  15. 9. Exploring an Epistemic Conflict over Free Speech on American College Campuses, and the Promise of the New Democratic Model
  16. 10. Teaching Competition and Cooperation in Civic Education
  17. Index