Critical Civic Literacy

Contents: Joseph L. DeVitis: Preface - Cara M. Mulcahy: The Tangled Web We Weave: Critical Literacy and Critical Thinking - Kenneth Teitelbaum: Critical Civic Literacy in Schools: Adolescents Seeking to Understand and Improve The(ir) World - Elizabeth Yeager Washington/Ray W. Washington: Civic (Mis)education and Critical Civic Literacy - Lawrence C. Stedman: In the Name of Democracy: Educational Policy and Civics Achievement in the Standards Era - Joe L. Kincheloe: Civics in the Social Studies: Critical Democratic Citizenship Education in a Corporatized Hyperreality - Joel Westheimer: Politics and Patriotism in Education - Joseph Kahne/Ellen Middaugh: Is Patriotism Good for Democracy? A Study of High School Seniors' Patriotic Commitments - Henry A. Giroux: Democracy's Promise and the Politics of Worldliness: Implications for Public Intellectuals - Elizabeth E. Heilman: A New Paradigm for Citizenship Education: The Personal-Political Approach - Barry M. Franklin/Steven Camicia: Critical Civic Literacy and the Building of Community for a Globalized World - John Smyth: Critical Civic Engagement from Inside an Australian School and Its Community Put at a Disadvantage - E. Wayne Ross/Kevin D. Vinson: Social Control and the Pursuit of Dangerous Citizenship - Aaron M. Kuntz: The Work of the Criticalist: Critical Civic Literacy and Intervention in Social Class Processes - Aaron Cooley: Mediating Education and Promoting a Progressive Civics Curriculum: Pedagogies of Philosophy, Dissent, and Democracy - Christopher Leahey: Negotiating a Parallel Curriculum: Making Space for Critical Civic Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom - Donald Lazere: A Core Curriculum for Civic Literacy? - Neil Houser: Critical Civic Literacy and the Arts - Robert Kunzman: Lessons in Conversation: Why Critical Civic Engagement Requires Talking about Religion, and What That Means for Public Schools - Pamela K. Smith/Dianne Smith: Attempted Cultural Baptism: The Bible Literacy Project's Impact on

Joseph L. DeVitis is Visiting Professor of Educational Foundations at Old Dominion University. Recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he is a widely published scholar and public intellectual in educational policy studies. He is a past president of the American Educational Studies Association, the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and the Society of Professors of Education. His most recent books are Character and Moral Education: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2011), edited with Tianlong Yu, and Adolescent Education: A Reader (Peter Lang, 2010), edited with Linda Irwin-DeVitis.

"With remarkable breadth and stunning depth, 'Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader' provides insightful discourse, enlightening research, and provocation for continued inquiry on one of the most enduring topics in the U.S. and around the world. This book avoids a unilateral assumption of what constitutes critical civic literacy, thus providing readers with various and varied understandings to further debate about what matters, what is meaningful, and why we should care about civics and the oft-assumed, if rarely practiced, idea of democracy in action." (Deron Boyles, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, Georgia State University; Past President, American Educational Studies Association; President, The John Dewey Society)
"'Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader' is an inspiration for all who believe that the fundamental purpose of public schooling ought to be to develop the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and habits necessary for democracy to function and flourish. At a time when citizenship is too often reduced to consumption, and individual rights are heralded much more than community responsibility, the authors in this wide-ranging collection give us hope that another vision for schools and society is possible. Thoughtfully combining theory and practice, they provide numerous models and resources for education that enable genuine social and political engagement, help us to build community, and foster the development of the kinds of critical citizens we need to forge a more caring, compassionate, and socially just world." (Kathy Hytten, Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Past President, American Educational Studies Association)
"The urgency to incorporate critical civic literacy into the practice and thought of education in a democracy is evident in the essays that Joseph L. DeVitis has collected (here). The contributors to this volume explore both the idea and ideal of critical civic