The conference addresses the following questions: In pluralist and conflicted societies, can teachers, particularly those from minority groups, play transformative roles by helping students gain civic maturity and learn how to respect diversity, thereby ameliorating social and political polarization? Do modern democracies need to develop models of civic education that can better prepare and empower student-citizens to be “co-authors of the law,” participants in free speech and democratic governance, and possessors of civic literacy? could there be consensus around promoting “student-centered civic education” by teaching historic struggles for civil and constitutional rights -- both as a lens on national history and a tool for undertaking critical evaluations of rights in the present? What might these models of civic teaching and learning entail?
Please join us in this national conference. Register in this link: Civic Education in Polarized Times for the zoom link and conference schedule.
