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Alarcón, Jeannette D.; Marhatt, Pratigya; Price, Emily – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2017
The purpose of this lesson is to engage young students in thinking about the complexity of socio-historical symbols in the present day. After careful preparation, the authors decided to teach about the decision by the state legislature in July 2015 to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. Presenting the…
Descriptors: Current Events, Teaching Methods, History Instruction, Decision Making
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Bracken, Susan; Grable, Lisa; O'Brien, Margaret; Sobrero, Pat; Warren, Alice – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
This article discusses the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a deliberative public issues forum held at North Carolina State University in early 2008. The forum itself was a part of a larger university strategic planning process. In spite of tight time constraints, the planning team made a decision to tailor the forum according to…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Democracy, Citizen Participation, Higher Education
Mullen, Carol A. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
This study was designed to elicit concepts and practices of democracy and accountability from education practitioners--graduate students who are teachers and leaders in schools and who are differently positioned as workers in higher education systems. The author's intention was to prompt active and reflective thinking on the part of the students…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Graduate Students, Democracy, Intention