Teaching Democracy – Unity and Diversity in Public Life Parker Banks Paperback

Teaching DemocracyUnity and Diversity in Public Life\nAuthor(s): Walter C. Parker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807742723, 978-0807742723\nSynopsis\nIn Teaching Democracy, Walter Parker makes a unique and thoughtful contribution to the hot debate between proponents of multicultural education and those who favor a cultural literacy approach. Parker conclusively demonstrates that educating for democratic citizenship in a multicultural society includes a fundamental respect for diversity.\n\nThis scholarly yet accessible work:\n\nBridges the widening gap between multicultural education and civic education.\nProvides powerful teaching strategies that educators can use to draw children creatively and productively into a way of life that protects and nurtures cultural pluralism and racial equity.\nExplains the unitydiversity confusion that is found in popular media as well as in multicultural- and citiz.