The Mis-Education of America: The Role of Educators and Curriculum in Preparing Democratic Citizens

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In the history of American education, citizenship arguments played a pivotal role in conceptualizing the importance of education as a tool to prepare students to engage democracy. This session evokes this fundamental vision of the purposes of American education, considering both the activities of Americans historically omitted in the vision of democratic engagement and the possibilities for citizenship preparation for the current generation. Although framed in America, it also appropriates the experiences of other countries wrestling with similar questions.

Sub Unit

• Public Good: Power and Possibilities

Chair

• Jarvis Ray Givens, Harvard University

Participants

• Roxana Daylen Duenas, Los Angeles Unified School District

• LaGarrett Jarriel King, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Amy Stuart Wells, Teachers College, Columbia University

• McClellon D. Cox, St. Philip AME Church/Association of Professional Chaplains

Discussant

• Christopher M. Span, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign