Teaching democracy: What schools need to do
Teaching democracy: What schools need to do
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DOI：
10.1177/003172170308500109
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发表时间：
2003-09-01
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影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Westheimer, J
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作者：
Kahne, J;Westheimer, J
如果你回答了B，你不仅回答正确，你的回答也反映了我们民主今天面临的一个重要挑战。当我们说我们珍视民主社会时，我们所期望的培养民主公民的机构--学校--已经远离了这一中心使命。现在经常有关于“国家接管”那些未能提高数学或阅读考试成绩的学校的说法，但难以想象的是，任何一所学校都会面临这样的行动，因为它未能为毕业生做好民主公民的准备。我们读到的头条新闻都是关于考试成绩、基本技能以及学校在帮助学生为信息时代的工作做好准备方面所扮演的角色。约瑟夫·凯恩是凯瑟琳·P·汉南美国研究教授，教育学教授，加州奥克兰米尔斯学院公民领导研究所的联合主任。（jkahne@米尔斯。edu）。乔尔·韦斯特海默是教育的社会基础的副教授，并在安大略省渥太华的渥太华大学指导民主对话：对民主、教育和社会的调查。（joelw@uotche.com）ca）。他们希望感谢Surdna基金会资助本文中报道的研究。
If you answered b, you not only answered correctly, your response also reflected an important challenge facing our democracy today. While we say that we value a democratic society, the very institutions expected to prepare democratic citizens—our schools—have moved far from this central mission. There is now frequent talk of “state takeovers” of schools that fail to raise test scores in math or reading, but it is unimaginable that any school would face such an action because it failed to prepare its graduates for democratic citizenship. The headlines we read are about test scores, basic skills, and the role schools play in preparing students for jobs in the Information Age. The vast bulk of school resources areJOSEPH KAHNE is the Kathryn P. Hannam Professor of American Studies, a professor of education, and co-director of the Institute for Civic Leadership, Mills College, Oakland, Calif.(jkahne@ mills. edu). JOEL WESTHEIMER is an associate professor of the social foundations of education and directs Democratic Dialogue: Inquiry into Democracy, Education, and Society at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.(joelw@ uottawa. ca). They wish to thank the Surdna Foundation for funding the study reported in this article.