Presents a lesson plan in which students learn about diversity in general and examine issues of diversity in school settings. Explains how students can design a plan or proposal to promote understanding and appreciation for diversity and to combat diversity problems at school. Includes objectives, background, and student handouts. (DK)

The National Council for Social Studies views citizen education as the cornerstone of all social studies programs. NCSS recommends organizing K-12 social studies programs around 10 themes, including culture and cultural diversity, human self-perceptions over time, individual development and identity, people's organization for economic production…

"The Cardinal Principles of Education" (1918) shaped the future of U.S. education. Its objectives were health, command of fundamental processes, worthy home-membership, vocation, citizenship, worthy leisure, and ethical character. The NEA Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education promoted an education that all youngsters…

Reviews four models of moral imagination applied to school leadership (as discovery, moral authority, faculty of mind, and super science) and discusses their inherent difficulties. Replacing "moral imagination" with "critical imagination," coupled with "democratic value deliberation," yields a richer leadership that…

Most inservice education programs support a technological approach to education that is indifferent to values of the mind and the democratic process. The technological mindset is evinced by these programs' passion for incoherent details, their emphasis on decontextualized techniques, and their stoic indifference to seminal ideas. A machine cannot…

Community service, widely touted as the cure for youngsters' political apathy, teaches little about the art of participating in public life. The service language of "caring and community" provides no antidote for today's youthful cynicism about politics, because it fails to reveal the public world extending beyond personal lives and…

Schools in England and Wales now operate within paraphernalia of a market system. Universalist, collectivist orientation of comprehensive education is being eroded by the development of a diverse, selective, competitive, and atomistic school system. This article summarizes results of interviews with 15 secondary headteachers concerning the market…

Argues that it is not school policy and practices, but rather American governmental and corporate mismanagement and poor policy, that have caused economic decline and growing poverty. Encourages teachers and students to use reading and writing to develop democratic voices. (SR)

Discusses liberatory education in the mathematics classroom, focusing on one teacher's experiences and questioning what would be liberatory in a mathematics classroom when the teacher finds a conflict. The paper examines issues of relevance in education, how much mathematics is important, how culture affects education, what is liberatory when…

Although Learning Society rhetoric sees the emergence of a democratic, participatory culture, the structures of local government that enable democratic participation have been seriously weakened in England and Wales. The new "contract culture" for lifelong learning may not be the right model for developing civil society. (SK)

Discusses ways that college faculty educate for an enriched public conversation, examining how a bicultural identity can decenter normatives, suggesting alternative models for understanding and thinking, and arguing that faculty whose intelligence has been formed by the experiences of concomitant cultural exile and naturalization are experts in…

Asks whether it is possible to develop an international, cross-cultural consensus on the meaning and characteristics of democracy and which common elements of these should constitute education for civic democracy. Outlines an international project, Democratic Citizenship: A Framework, in an attempt to answer these questions. Discusses possible…

Contrasts the "English model" of school self-evaluation with another used by seven other European countries. Whereas the English model may be characterized as instrumentalist, action-oriented, rationalistic, and managerial, it lacks several important elements: the ethical; affective; non-rational; and democratic modes of thinking.…

The 19th-century emergence of a centralized, state-controlled school system helped stabilize government and legitimize a state model during a revolutionary period in French history. The centralized model assisted national integration goals by fabricating a symbolic public space. This ambitious political construction may be coming apart. (Contains…

Examines the theoretical bases of academic service learning, with particular attention to John Dewey's contributions. Conceptualizes the service learning movement as part of an ongoing, and still unsuccessful, effort to "de-Platonize" and democratize American higher education in articular and American schooling in general. (Author/MSE)