Can Schools Save Democracy?

Civic Education and the Common Good

De: Michael J. Feuer

Narrado por: Gary Roelofs

How can education protect and strengthen democracy?

In an era when democracy is at critical risk, is it reasonable to expect the education system, already buckling under the ordeal of a global pandemic, to solve the converging problems of inequality, climate change, and erosion of trust in government and science? Will more civics instruction help? In Can Schools Save Democracy? Michael J. Feuer offers a new approach to addressing these questions with a strategy for improving the process and substance of civic education.

Adopting a definition of public education that celebrates the engagement between schools and their environments, Feuer argues for reinforced partnerships within the education system and between educators and their diverse constituents. He anticipates new collaborations between education faculty and their colleagues in the behavioral, social, and physical sciences and humanities; stronger links between schools and their complex outside environments; and improved mechanisms for global cooperation. Can Schools Save Democracy? includes lively examples of how theoretical principles can inform familiar problems and offers a hopeful path for progress toward a stronger democracy.

The book is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2023 Michael J. Feuer (P)2024 Redwood Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A must-read for educators, policy makers, and everyone who cares about the future of our democracy." (Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California)

"This is a deeply knowledgeable, deeply wise, deeply felt brief for civics education in public schools." (Nicholas Lemann, Columbia Journalism School)

"Provides both scholars and practitioners with a timely and reasoned way forward on how schools can once again be called upon to save democracy..." (Carl A. Cohn, Claremont Graduate University)