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Teaching a Larger “Sense of Community”
Author(s) -
Flanagan Constance
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/asap.12057
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , democracy , sense of community , psychology , element (criminal law) , social psychology , sociology , political science , law , anthropology , politics
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.