No citizen left behind /
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and an...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives ;
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The civic empowerment gap
- "At school I talk straight" : race talk and civic empowerment
- "You have the right to struggle" : constructing historical counternarrative
- Rethinking heroes and role models
- How to soar in a world you've never seen : making citizenship visible in schools
- The case for action civics
- Democracy, accountability, and education.
