1st Edition
Young Children’s Civic Mindedness Democratic Living and Learning in an Unequal World
By Jennifer Hauver
Copyright 2019
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
by
Routledge
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Young Children’s Civic Mindedness provides a well-grounded understanding of children’s civic thought and action by inviting readers to look and listen carefully to the voices of young children themselves. Grounded in research on children’s evolving civic identities and drawn from extended case studies and rich narrative vignettes, this book shows the many ways even the youngest children can be... Read more
Preface: Rethinking Early Childhood Civic Education
Acknowledgements
Part I
- Explorations into Children’s Civic Mindedness
- Theoretical Orientations
- Interpersonal Understandings: How Do Children Understand Others?
- Extrapersonal Understandings: How Do Children Understand Civic Problems?
- Intrapersonal Understandings: How Do Children Understand Themselves in Relation to Civic Spaces?
- How Do Children’s Understandings Inform their Engagement?
- What Do Children Learn as a Result of their Engagement?
- Taking Young Children’s Civic Learning Seriously
Part II
Part III
Appendices
Index
Biography
Jennifer Hauver is Associate Professor of Education at Randolph-Macon College, USA.






