"Teaching Democracy in Polarizing Times"
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Read Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay's new article in Educational Leadership on the challenges democratic educators face during times of intense political polarization
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Teaching Democracy in Polarizing Times
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By using case studies to discuss ethical dilemmas with their colleagues, educators can better prepare to address political and civic challenges in their schools.
Educators have become increasingly stymied by the challenges of teaching both in a democracy...
Justin Hauver
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Justin Hauver is a former teacher and current PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where his research aims to support liberatory pedagogies, study how teachers and students live their values in every decision, and understand how our...
Meira Levinson
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Meira Levinson is a professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and the founder and faculty director of the EdEthics/Justice in Schools initiative at HGSE. She is a normative political philosopher who works at the intersection of civic...
Faith in Mr. D: Accommodating Religion in Schools
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Snapshot: In this case study, a middle school principal in Canada faces a firestorm when he allows students in his majority-Muslim school to conduct Friday prayers in the school cafeteria. In the public school system of a multicultural democracy, where is...
Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics
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Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? Democratic Discord in Schools featur...
A Parallel Universe: Conspiracy Theories and the Limits of Education
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Snapshot: Conspiracy theories play an increasingly important and often highly problematic role in political debates in liberal democracies. As a student at a German high school becomes deeply immersed in the world of conspiracy theories in the wake of the...
Promoting Powerful Ethical Engagement with Normative Case Studies: An Online Course
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Course Registration : Course: Promoting Powerful Ethical Engagement with Normative Case Studies (NCS) Dates: Email justice@gse.harvard.edu to learn more about upcoming course sessions. Cost: Early Bird Pricing: $900 (individual); $750 (team, per person)...
Model Syllabi
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One of the goals of Justice in Schools is to promote the use of normative case studies as a powerful tool for teaching about and reflecting on challenge ethical dilemmas in the practice of education. The following collection of syllabi come from...
The Job Search
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Snapshot: Towards the end of her Masters in Teaching, a preservice teacher grapples with whether or not to accept a job offer to teach at an urban charter school and discusses what it means to teach for social justice with a group of her colleagues.
What Would You Do?: Seeing Green
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Snapshot: This second episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Seeing Green" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira Levinson. Should science...