{"id":31040,"date":"2024-01-18T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31040"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T14:47:02","slug":"civic-education-in-a-time-of-democratic-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=31040","title":{"rendered":"Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I enjoyed an online conversation yesterday with David Campbell from Notre Dame, Paul Carrese from Arizona State University, Linda Darling-Hammond from the Learning Policy Institute, Kent McGuire of the Hewlett Foundation, and Na\u2019ilah Suad Nasir from the Spencer Foundation. We discussed research collected in the current volume of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/em>, on the topic of\u00a0“Civic Education in a Time of Democratic Crisis<\/em><\/a>.” Several articles in that volume feature recent insights from the National Academy of Education’s\u00a0Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report and the\u00a0Educating for American Democracy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0Roadmap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conversation addressed such questions as these: What new understanding of civic education is presented in the ANNALS volume, and how\u00a0is this vision relevant to our current political environment? What are some recent shifts in civics standards and requirements? What can we learn from the learning sciences about pedagogies for civics? What does all this mean for teacher education? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also thought that members of the audience pushed us to consider some valuable questions, such as whether it’s right to use “crisis” language to describe democracy or civic education in our schools (or both). <\/p>\n\n\n\n