4. Essential Worker Materials. The Evolution of Civic Education -- The Difference That Status Makes -- Motivated Cognition -- Teaching About Exclusion -- 2. The Boundaries of Citizenship -- The Legal Regulation of Citizenship -- Race, Class, and Gender as Citizenship Boundaries -- The Continuing Legacy of the National Origin Quotas -- Citizenship Boundaries and the Immigrant Labor Paradox -- Implications for Civic Education -- 3. Redefining Membership Boundaries -- Citizenship Dimensions -- The Case for Membership -- Implications for Civic Education -- 4. Civic Education in the Classroom -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Primary Resources for Classroom Activities -- Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act Materials -- Gender and Citizenship Acquisition Material -- Essential Worker Materials.
Summary:
This important book offers an inclusive approach to preparing students to be responsible participants in a democratic society. Civic education generally operates through the lens of citizenship, where students learn what good citizenship is and what good citizens do. Yet the citizenship lens fails to identify the wide range of schoolchildren and their families who participate in economic, political, and social life. Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration examines the exclusionary aspects of citizenship and offers democratic societies an alternative approach that includes all long-term residents regardless of citizenship and immigration status. Banks reimagines a civic education curriculum that gives secondary students the knowledge and skills needed to move the United States toward a more perfect union. -- Provided by publisher.
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