Teaching a Larger "Sense of Community"

In: Analyses of social issues and public policy, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 423-425

Abstract

In this commentary, I summarize three teaching practices that nurture the democratic dispositions of students. The common element in these pedagogies is extending youths' interactions with others whose backgrounds differ from theirs and broadening youths' perspectives about the interdependence of their fates with the fates of others.