Promoting Engaged Citizenship and Informing Public Debate
A Two-Fold Argument for Contemporary Issues in Education as a Social Science Elective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8924722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia H Hinchey (Penn State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-43 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131940903480209 |
| OpenAlex | W2053311033 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
A course in contemporary education issues is proposed as a valuable general education vehicle for citizenship education. Such a course offers the advantages of being inherently political and interdisciplinary, and relevant to students’ life experience. Moreover, such a course would help satisfy the academy's responsibility to inform public debate about privatizing public education, an issue of national concern
Argument (complex analysis · Citizenship · Citizenship education · Engineering ethics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Public education · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Medicine · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |