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Democracy's Next Generation, Donna Fowler
Democracy's Next Generation, Donna Fowler
Civic Engagement
A recent study conducted for People For the American Way recommends three ways schools can help students develop the values and habits of responsible citizenship.
Teaching Twenty-First Century Citizenship: Social Psychological Foundations, Allan R. Brandhorst
Teaching Twenty-First Century Citizenship: Social Psychological Foundations, Allan R. Brandhorst
Civic Engagement
Effective American (U.S.) citizenship in the Twenty-first century may require a shift in the value orientation which currently characterizes American life. Two components of the American value system are becoming increasingly dysfunctional. American social science, and accordingly the social studies curriculum, has become narrowly focused on an economic model of human decision-making. Such a one-dimensional model of man, because it invalidates by omission justice-based models of decision-making, leaves American society with a reduced capacity for addressing social dilemmas, particularly commons-type problems. Secondly, American cultural life has been dominated by a heavy and one-sided commitment to primary control. Such an imbalance, …