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McGuire, Margit E.; Stevahn, Laurie; Bronsther, Shari Wennik – Democracy & Education, 2020
Darwich (2020) asked "What Kind of Citizens Do Educators Hope Their Students Become?" in her response to "Storypath: A Powerful Tool for Engaging Children in Civic Education" (McGuire et al., 2019). She argued that civics should be rooted in social justice grounded by critical civic empathy, which requires focusing on power and…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Citizenship Education, Civics, Empathy
Darwich, Lina – Democracy & Education, 2020
McGuire, Stevahn, and Bronsther (2019) focused on civic education in elementary grades, an important but sorely missing topic in schools. Using Storypath, a simulation-like approach to address the housing affordability in Seattle, the authors showed how motivated and engaged students were with the topic. A major strength of the study is the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Teaching Methods, Simulated Environment
Hytten, Kathy – Democracy & Education, 2015
In this essay, I offer provocations toward an ethics of teaching for democracy and social justice. I argue that while driven by compelling macro social and political visions, social justice teachers do not pay sufficient attention to the moral dimensions of micro, classroom-level interactions in their work. I begin by describing social justice…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Democracy, Social Justice
Fujiyoshi, Kay F. – Democracy & Education, 2015
This paper addresses the limitations of social justice in institutional spaces and in rhetoric. I write in the form of a quest narrative to describe the lessons I learned from a brief sojourn in a temporary position in an urban teacher education program with a social justice focus and at a nonprofit organization with other social justice workers.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Teacher Education Programs, Urban Environment, Urban Education
Woodward-Young, Patricia A. – Democracy & Education, 2008
Teaching and living for social justice cannot happen without the disposition of empathy and a sense of otherness. Many in the field of multicultural education emphasize that a teacher's attitude, orientation, and awareness are at the core of being a culturally competent teacher. Gloria Ladson-Billings asserts that culturally competent teachers…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Preservice Teachers, Multicultural Education, Empathy