Democratic Citizenship in Elementary Social Studies Education: An Examination of the Views of Graduate-Level Preservice Teachers

• In Event: Democratic Citizenship in Education 2

Abstract

This qualitative inquiry reports on how three graduate-level preservice elementary teachers conceived of the relationship between diversity and democracy, and how their understandings of this relationship served to frame their selection of content and pedagogy for democratic citizenship education.

Author

• Jason K. Ritter, Duquesne University