To Protect Democracy Keep Controversies, Current Events, and Politics in the Classroom

Is it appropriate – even a good thing in this time of intense political division -- for social studies teachers to bring politics, current events, and highly controversial issues into the classroom? Diana Hess is a former social studies teacher, now Dean of the College of Education at the University of Wisconsin, and a nationally recognized expert on civic education. Drawing upon extensive research on classroom practices, she argues that in a democratic society these topics must be part of the curriculum and that teachers can (and most often do) discuss them without being partisan.

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To Protect Democracy Keep Controversies, Current Events, and Politics in the Classroom is an episode from Teacher Stories by Teacher Stories.

This episode is 00:32:55 long.

This episode was published on Oct 12, 2021.

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