03372nam 22005415 450 991015633350332120200705175834.03-319-40769-410.1007/978-3-319-40769-2(CKB)3710000000985603(DE-He213)978-3-319-40769-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4772425(PPN)221078835(EXLCZ)99371000000098560320161220d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierDemocracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age /by Angelo J. Letizia1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XVI, 222 p. 49 illus., 9 illus. in color.)3-319-40768-6 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Chapter 1: Citizenship in the Information Age -- Chapter 2: Locate-Evaluate-Activate -- Chapter 3: Dialogue for Democracy -- Chapter 4: STEM and Democracy -- Chapter 5: Discourse for Democracy -- Chapter 6: Meaningful Democracy -- Chapter 7: Justice for Democracy -- Chapter 8: Leadership in a Democracy -- Chapter 9: Writing for Democracy -- Chapter 10: The Wider Picture.This book presents educators with research-based strategies to promote civic education in their classrooms. Going beyond theory and measures of achievement, these methods focus on information location, evaluation and activation, dialogue in the classroom, understandings of discourse in popular culture and policymaking, and understanding the role of STEM disciplines in democracy. The author also furthers considerations of how the political process can provide meaning and new visions of justice in a globalized world, and advance student leadership and academic writing in the information age. As the world faces unprecedented levels of poverty, wealth disparity, environmental destruction, and ethical questions regarding biotechnology, the United States needs knowledgeable citizens to effectively deal with these issues. Letizia provides teachers and teacher educators with the needed methods to foster these types of democratic considerations. .TeachingEducational policyEducation and stateEducational sociologyTeaching and Teacher Educationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O31000Educational Policy and Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O19000Sociology of Educationhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/O29000Teaching.Educational policy.Education and state.Educational sociology.Teaching and Teacher Education.Educational Policy and Politics.Sociology of Education.370.711Letizia Angelo Jauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut964443BOOK9910156333503321Democracy and Social Justice Education in the Information Age2509775UNINA