What Kind of Citizen?: Educating Our Children for the Common Good

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Teachers College Press, 2015 - Education - 122 pages

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Contents

Introduction
1
CHAPTER 1 Changing the Narrative of School
5
CHAPTER 2 No Child Left Thinking
11
CHAPTER 3 No Teacher Left Teaching
19
CHAPTER 4 How Did This Happen?
27
CHAPTER 5 What Kind of Citizen?
35
CHAPTER 6 Personally Responsible Citizens
44
CHAPTER 7 Participatory and Social JusticeOriented Citizens
50
CHAPTER 8 Thinking Engaged Citizens
68
CHAPTER 9 Seven Myths About Education
84
CHAPTER 10 What Kind of School?
96
Acknowledgments
103
Notes
107
Index
116
About the Author
122
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Joel Westheimer is professor and university research chair in sociology of education at the University of Ottawa and education columnist for CBC Radio. He is the editor of Pledging Allegiance: The Politics of Patriotism in America's Schools.

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