Connecting civic education and language education.
Notes:
"Based primarily on papers that have been presented at a week-long institute on writing, reading, and civic education held at the Harvard Graduate School of Educationfor the past four summers"--P. xix. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The decline of a civic ethic / Sandra Stotsky -- Reading and civic literacy : are we literate enough to meet our civic responsibilities? / Jeanne S. Chall and Dorothy Henry -- Teaching contemporary American literature : a professional dilemma / Sandra Stotsky with Barbara Hardy Beierl -- Appendix : An annotated reading list for high school and college teachers : reclaiming our humanity in twentieth-century literature / John W. Cameron -- On developing independent thinking and responsible writing : what we can learn from studies of the research process / Sandra Stotsky -- Teaching academic writing as moral and civic thinking / Sandra Stotsky -- Language education and civic education : recovering past traditions, reassessing contemporary challenges / Lisa Ede. The uses of argument in civic education : a philosophy and practices for our time / Richard A. Katula.
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