Civics for Secondary Educators: Exploring Teachers' Civic Identity and Agency

• In Event: The Politics of Praxis

Abstract

As this year’s AERA Call for Proposals makes clear, educators must be laser focused on building systems that embrace equity and justice, fosters civic learning and agency—the capacities to appreciate and contribute to an open and flourishing commons. Our proposed presentation will provide an overview, share the results, and report the initial finding from an innovative, multi-site civic-learning pilot funded by the Teagle Foundation. Our “Third Way Civics” approach seeks to transcend the “civics wars” that impede investment in undergraduate secondary education major’s civic learning, demonstrating the complementarity of traditional and progressive approaches by combining rigorous historical study with situational practice and application of civic skills.

Author

• David J. Roof, Ball State University