Democratic Citizenship Education and Political Polarization: Nuances and Perspectives

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

This panel will grapple with the questions of how we can best pursue democratic citizenship education in a context where public political discourse is highly polarized. Our discussion will interrogate the purposes of dialogue across political difference and, strategies for helping students engage in perspective taking, identifying common ground, and productive engagement with controversial political topics, and the needs of students whose identities are targeted and threatened as part of polarized discourse

Sub Unit

• SIG-Democratic Citizenship in Education

Chair

• Ellen Middaugh, San Jose State University

Discussant

• Hillary Parkhouse, Virginia Commonwealth University

Panelists

• Gideon Dishon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Dane Erikson, More Like Us

• Jeremy D. Stoddard, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Jenni Conrad, Oregon State University