Preparing for Citizenship: Teaching Youth to Live Democratically

by Robert A. Kenny, Andrew Garrod, Ralph Mosher

Book Overview

Understanding democracy, learning to be democratic and to value democracy are critical competencies to be developed by all Americans. In the present debate about what knowledge is of most worth in the public school, these civic competencies are seen as second in importance only to the development of critical thinking. They are typically, however, honored more in commencement rhetoric than in school programs or practices; their actualization falls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275950964
• ISBN13: 9780275950965
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"