Weaving the Web of Democracy: Confronting Conflicting Expectations for Teachers and Schools.

Vavrus, Michael; Walton, Sherry; Kido, Janice; Diffendal, Elizabeth; King, Pauletta

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ERIC Number: EJ588821

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Publication Date: 1999

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Weaving the Web of Democracy: Confronting Conflicting Expectations for Teachers and Schools.

Vavrus, Michael; Walton, Sherry; Kido, Janice; Diffendal, Elizabeth; King, Pauletta

Journal of Teacher Education, v50 n2 p119-30 Mar-Apr 1999

Shares Evergreen State College's attempts to create and provide a teacher-preparation program that examines what it means to teach in a democratic, pluralistic society, presenting six provocative declaratives about democratic education that the program uses for its internal program discussions and explaining how the program contends with each provocative declarative. (SM)

Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy, Democratic Values, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Moral Values, Preservice Teacher Education, Public Schools, Social Values, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teaching

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Language: English

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