Guest Essay by Debra Satz and Dan Edelstein

"But universities have a moral and civic duty to teach students how to consider and weigh contrary viewpoints, and how to accept differences of opinion as a healthy feature of a diverse society. Disagreement is in the nature of democracies."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/03/opinion/colleges-civics-core-curriculum-culture-wars.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

#FreeSpeech #democracy #disagreement #colleges #CultureWar #humanities #CivicEducation

A shake-up of the Big Four consulting firms requires a level of public understanding we are yet to reach.
"While 60% of Australians say they have heard of the scandal, an even bigger majority (67%) could not tell you what is actually going on."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/a-shake-up-of-the-big-four-consulting-firms-requires-a-level-of-public-understanding-we-are-yet-to-reach
#CivicEducation #CollectiveInertia #PublicService #governance

Das Unionslabor ist eines unserer erfolgreichsten Angebote in der digitalen Europa-Bildung: Ca. 500 Schüler*innen spielen mit - und das Monat für Monat!

Das Unionslabor ist kostenfrei und dauert 90 Minuten. Im digitalen #Planspiel wird mündlich verhandelt und gleichzeitig am Handy oder Tablet gearbeitet. Die Durchführung ist einfach und ohne besondere technische Vorkenntnisse möglich. In kurzen Online-Schulungen zeigen wir, wie's geht.

Diesen Monat gibt es wieder zwei Termine – am 07.03. und 21.03. von 16-17 Uhr.

Jetzt anmelden - per E-Mail an sinko@planpolitik.de! 
Mehr Infos unter www.unionslabor.de

#PolitischeBildung #Schulung #Workshop #civiceducation #europabildung #jugendbildung

Kein leichtes Thema: Wie über Krieg sprechen angesichts des aktuellen Angriffskrieges auf die Ukraine?

In unserem neuen Blog-Beitrag schreiben wir, welche Chancen und Grenzen der Politischen Bildungsarbeit wir sehen, welche Erfahrungen wir im letzten halben Jahr mit unserem EU-Ukraine-Formaten gemacht haben und was dies für die Zukunft der Politischen Bildungsarbeit bedeuten kann.

👉 https://planpolitik.de/de/blog/ueber-krieg-sprechen

#politischebildung #planspiel #workshop #europabildung #friedensbildung #civiceducation

“Although not unswerving, a Black Christian confidence in America’s public purposefulness has endured over many years, expanding and contracting along the way in response to existing circumstances and events.” R. Drew Smith offers his thoughts on Black religion and American civics for #BlackPerspectives #AAIHS. #religion #BlackHistory #CivicEducation https://www.aaihs.org/black-religious-fostering-of-american-civic-ideals/

The #conference brought together #scientists, #practioners & the #civilsociety to exchange ideas on how to deal with #fakenews & #hatespeech in professional, voluntary and private contexts. In different #methodological & #didactic settings, such as #international & #interdisciplinary working groups, the #conference participants shared their ideas of how to address fake news & hate speech related to #civiceducation, (#mental) #health, #intersectionality, #environment and #press/#socialmedia. 2/2

The #conference brought together #scientists, #practioners & the #civilsociety to exchange ideas on how to deal with #fakenews & #hatespeech in professional, voluntary and private contexts. In different #methodological & #didactic settings, such as #international & #interdisciplinary working groups, the #conference participants shared their ideas of how to address fake news & hate speech related to #civiceducation, (#mental) #health, #intersectionality, #environment and #press/#socialmedia. 2/2

The #conference brought together #scientists, #practioners & the #civilsociety to exchange ideas on how to deal with #fakenews and #hatespeech in professional, voluntary and private contexts. In different #methodological and #didactic settings, such as #international and #interdisciplinary working groups, the #conference participants shared their ideas of how to address fake news related to #civiceducation, (#mental) #health, #intersectionality, #environment and #press/#socialmedia. 2/2

Hearing #gratitude from students is 💯. I subbed portfolios for exams this semester and I’m never giving an exam again.

I’m reading short notes and whole reflective essays showing appreciation for seeing / hearing / #learning about people like them who are responsible for our so much of our #history but missing from our standard texts.

Also, students who just completed an intro course are vowing to learn more! 🤩 #histodons #teaching #CivicEducation

A good #CivicEducation should stress the distinction between private and public life, and that the moral code in the latter should be stricter.

Martin Luther King was a serial adulterer, but he made an important contribution in improving the world.

The worthlesness of an ad hominem attack as an argument has been known since the Middle Ages and still...

It's interesting that I sometimes got an angry reaction when I stated this obvious-to-me point to some pretty sensible people.

#DeepThoughts

@jayrosen_nyu I’ve worked in #CivicEducation about this long and have made your Citizen’s Agenda part of how we talk about what we need from the news.

I knew everything was going to be ok when I found you here! 🤓

#historyeducation #socialstudies #civiceducation #humanrights

I try to prioritize #Longreads with my coffee on Sundays. This article resonates with every conversation I’ve had with myself since 2016.

It fits conversations I’ve had with so many #educators too.

The Trump years tested our zeal for #CivicEducation.

The pandemic and whatever we’re calling this phase of COVID tested our faith in support for the public good.

This language about moral injury might help us help one another to come back stronger.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moral-injury-is-an-invisible-epidemic-that-affects-millions/

2) A good #civiceducation media campaign has to have a considerable amount of stealth to it. Try to avoid making people believe that you're on one side of that horrible and pointless #culturewar so there'll a be long enough period when #FoxNews pundits will ignore of even recommend you. The #PSA format surely helps, when you can use it.

#IfIWereABillionnaire /end

Hi #Histodons, my name is Sabrina. In my #EnvHist / #EnvTech dissertation – which I hope to hand in soonish at the UniBW in Munich (🇩🇪) – I am investigating how, when and why #environment became a field of #Development Policy. More precisely, I am working with 2 case studies, 1 on #airpollution in #MexicoCity and another 1 on #waterpollution in #SãoPaulo. Besides, I work at the Institute for #civiceducation in Eupen (🇧🇪), focussing on the intersection of civic education and media literacy

#Introduction I'm a prof. (#philosophy #politicalscience) at #TuftsUniversity & academic dean of Tufts' Tisch College. I study #civicengagement and #politicaltheory. Some of us are trying to build "Civic Studies" as a new interdisciplinary field. (I might as well hashtag that: #civicstudies.) I also work on #civiceducation in K-12 schools. My most recent book is _What Should We Do? A Theory of Civic Life_ (Oxford University Press, 2022). I've blogged 3-5 times/ week since 2003 at peterlevine.ws

RT @angmgpp: So proud of this session with participants of the inergenerational conversations about #civiceducation futures with VP @dubravkasuica moderated by @stephen_quest at our 4th festival on #PublicParticipation and #DeliberativeDemocracy!

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/EU_ScienceHub/status/1583396343917092864