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Teaching and Learning in Politically Charged Classrooms: Negotiating Tensions and Opportunities for Democratic Education
Sun, April 10, 10:35am to 12:05pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Two, Marquis Salon 10Session Type: Symposium
Abstract
This international symposium generates new scholarship on teaching for democracy in dramatically diverse local contexts. We examine classrooms as politically charged spaces – suffused with inherent tensions of teaching that are intensified by sociopolitical conflicts. These tensions generate both dilemmas and opportunities. The papers probe how teachers and students negotiate these charged spaces and create dynamics that work for and against democratic engagement in the classroom. These four qualitative research papers represent contexts ranging across primary and secondary schools in different regions of the U.S., Israel, and Cyprus. They will stimulate critical discussion about how we educate students for diverse democracies in the face of political forces that threaten them.
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Politically Charged Identities in the Peace Education Classroom: Insights From a Superdiverse Setting in Cyprus - Constadina Charalambous, European University Cyprus; Panayiota Charalambous; Michalinos Zembylas, The Open University of Cyprus
When (Formal) Citizenship Is Not a Given in Citizenship Education: Cases From the Field - Dafney Blanca Dabach, University of Washington - Seattle; Natasha Merchant, University of Washington; Aliza Fones, University of Washington; Adebowale Adekile, University of Washington
The Banality of Civic Education in Israeli Classrooms: The Subversion of Political Ideology by Pedagogical Realities - Itay Pollak, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Aliza Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Adam Lefstein, Ben Gurion University of the Negev; Assaf Meshulam, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
The Influence of Children's "Practical Sense" of Race, Class, Gender, and School Relationships on Their Participation in Deliberative Dialogue - Jennifer H. James, University of Georgia; Jessica Frances Kobe, University of Georgia - Athens