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As we move forward well into the 21st century most citizens around the globe seemingly accept the rudiments of a democratic citizenship. And yet in spite of this broad acceptance, a clear articulation of what democratic citizenship entails remains somewhat elusive. In this book, Hyslop-Margison and Thayer achieve two critically important objectives in response to this problem. First, they successfully articulate the threat to democracy posed by current citizenship education programs that adopt a largely instrumental framework fostering passivity and compliance by protecting the established parameters of neo-liberal social design. Second, they show a way out of this anti-democratic trap by illustrating how critical theory, with its marvelous ability to provide trenchant critiques of capitalism and turn those critiques into concrete political action, provides the ideal pedagogical approach to educate our students effectively as future democratic citizens. The authors critique the conditions of modern democratic citizenship and distinguish a robust, or thick, version of citizenship based on citizen agency and participation in the construction of social reality from contemporary models that undermine citizen engagement. They contend that it is only through critical theory and the political agency it inspires that meaningful democratic change can and must occur. Hence, the role of education in their view is not merely to prepare students for a new economic reality, but to prepare them instead to shape that reality in more progressive and socially just ways. This book eloquently argues that the citizenship mission of schools ought to teach students what is possible rather than simply objectifying them as human capital being prepared for the inevitable impact of the policies determined by others.

Démocratie --- Éducation à la citoyenneté.

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San Francisco is known and loved around the world for its iconic man-made structures, such as the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and Transamerica Pyramid. Yet its Civic Center, with the grandest collection of monumental municipal buildings in the United States, is often overlooked, drawing less global and local interest, despite its being an urban planning marvel featuring thirteen government office and cultural buildings. In The San Francisco Civic Center , James Haas tells the complete story of San Francisco's Civic Center and how it became one of the most complete developments envisioned by any American city. Originally planned and designed by John Galen Howard in 1912, the San Francisco Civic Center is considered in both design and materials one of the finest achievements of the American reformist City Beautiful movement, an urban design movement that began more than a century ago. Haas meticulously unravels the Civic Center's story of perseverance and dysfunction, providing an understanding and appreciation of this local and national treasure. He discusses why the Civic Center was built, how it became central to the urban planning initiatives of San Francisco in the early twentieth century, and how the site held onto its founders' vision despite heated public debates about its function and achievement. He also delves into the vision for the future and related national trends in city planning and the architectural and art movements that influenced those trends. Riddled with inspiration and leadership as well as controversy, The San Francisco Civic Center , much like the complex itself, is a stunning manifestation of the confident spirit of one of America's most dynamic and creative cities.

Urbanisme --- Villes --- Éducation à la citoyenneté --- Embellissement --- Centres

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Burgerdeugd [Opvoeding tot ] --- Burgerzin [Opvoeding tot ] --- Civics --- Civics [American ] --- Civisme -- Éducation --- Enseignement de la citoyenneté --- Instruction civique --- Opvoeding tot burgerdeugd --- Staatsburgerlijke opvoeding --- Staatsburgerlijke rechten en plichten in het onderwijs --- Staatsburgers -- Rechten en plichten -- Onderwijs --- Éducation civique --- Éducation du citoyen --- Éducation à la citoyenneté --- Éducation à la citoyenneté démocratique et aux droits de l'homme --- Political participation --- Political culture --- Citizenship --- Civics. --- History. --- United States --- History

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The world is in crisis. The people of the world are all connected, & rely on one another to make ethical decisions & to solve civic problems together. Ethics & civics have always mattered, but it is becoming more evident how much they matter. Teaching ethics & civics is essential to the future. This book argues that games can encourage the practice of ethics & civics. They can help people to connect, deliberate, reflect, & flourish. They can help people to reimagine systems & solve problems. Games are communities & public spheres. Like all communities, they may encourage care, connection, & respect. They may also be used for hate, disinformation, & exclusion. Games reveal humanity's compassion as well as its cruelty. This text provides research-based perspectives related to why & how people should play, make, & use games in ethics, civics, character, & social studies education.

Moral education. --- Games - Moral and ethical aspects. --- Civics - Study and teaching. --- Ethics - Study and Teaching. --- Games --- Civics --- Ethics --- Games in education --- Computerspellen. --- Ethische aspecten. --- Morale --- Éducation morale. --- Éducation à la citoyenneté. --- Study and teaching. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Étude et enseignement.