Case Studies of Effective Learning Climates for Civic Reasoning and Discussion

Lyiscott Jamila, Cati V. De Los Ríos and Christopher H. Clark

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2023, vol. 705, issue 1, 138-155

Abstract: While the national media continues to highlight the tensions of cultural politics in education, there is a need for young people and educators to be equipped for the daunting local, national, and global challenges that mark their everyday lives. Many educators and young people alike are interested in engaging youth in civic reasoning and discourse that prepares them to meet those many challenges. This article highlights applications of civic reasoning and discourse in three contexts: a traditional high school social studies classroom, a hybrid school-community action project, and an out-of-school Youth Participatory Action Research program. We argue that these case studies show a path forward for developing students’ civic reasoning and discourse skills because the students turn toward and lean into what we define as moments of critical dissonance : in each case, the students and educators work together to engage, rather than avoid, complex sociopolitical realities, even while holding a variety of racial, ethnic, political, and cultural identities.

Keywords: civic education; classroom learning; curriculum; adolescent literacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00027162231178627

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