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Title Politics now : enhancing political consciousness in high schools / Esther Yogev, editor
Published New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Education in a competitive and globalizing world
Education in a competitive and globalizing world series
Contents Introduction: on the need to strengthen the political consciousness in schools / Esther Yogev -- Critical education and the twofold concept of ideology / Amnon Yuval -- Talking about revolution : developing political consciousness through constructivist teaching of literature / Taly Goldshmid -- Political sensitivity and social responsibility in psychological training / Nissim Avissar -- Bearing witness and responsibility in education / Hanoch Ben-Pazi -- Transformative education and sustainability : pathways and possibilities / David Dunetz -- The missing political link in progressive education : George S. Counts and a call for a democratic-political pedagogy / Nir Michaeli -- The ethical value of aesthetic education / Shai Frogel -- Epilogue: reviving political education / Eyal Naveh
Summary This collection of chapters deals with a troubling issue: the absence of education towards political-social thinking in schools. Politics is the public domain that organizes the life of the people through the exercise of power and the fulfillment of the interests of different individuals in society, within a reality of limited resources. Modern politics has an institutional dimension that is related to government and is concerned with the electoral process, representation, legislation, implementation and judgment. The civic dimension, deals with the connection between rights and responsibiliti
Notes Includes index
Subject Political science -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Civics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Political participation.
Political socialization.
Critical pedagogy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Civics -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Critical pedagogy
Political participation
Political science -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Political socialization
Form Electronic book
Author Yogev, Esther, editor
ISBN 9781634632348
1634632346