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Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty: Place-Responsive Learning book cover

1st Edition

Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty Place-Responsive Learning

By Gilbert Burgh, Simone Thornton Copyright 2022
236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge

236 Pages
by Routledge
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The strength of democracy lies in its ability to self-correct, to solve problems and adapt to new challenges. However, increased volatility, resulting from multiple crises on multiple fronts – humanitarian, financial, and environmental – is testing this ability. By offering a new framework for democratic education, Teaching Democracy in an Age of Uncertainty begins a dialogue with education... Read more

Introduction.1. Citizenship as an Active Learning Process 2. Teaching Civics and Citizenship 3. Democracy, Curriculum and Pedagogy 4. Educational Philosophy 5. Knowledge Construction and Knowledge Exclusion 6. Democratic Education as Place-responsive Learning. References. Index

Biography

Gilbert Burgh is an Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy in the Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, Australia. He has published widely on democratic education, civics and citizenship education, dialogic pedagogy, and the development of the community of inquiry in educational discourse.

Simone Thornton is a Lecturer in Philosophy in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland, Australia. Simone’s research interests and publications intersect environmental philosophy, philosophy and education, and social and political philosophy, including environmental education, decolonisation, philosophy in schools, and the philosophy of Camus and Plumwood.　　

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