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Selected Works of Hannah M. Carter
Article
The Students are Listening: Elementary Education’s Responsibility to Young Citizens Beyond the Rituals of Democratic Citizenship
Teachers College Record (2016)
  • Kathryn M. Obenchain, Purdue University
  • Julie L. Pennington, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Melissa Bedford, University of Nevada, Reno
  • Hannah Carter, University of Nevada, Reno
  • MaryLiz Magee
Abstract
The purpose of this commentary is to reiterate our responsibility to educate our young citizens in ways that go beyond rituals and classroom walls. Our argument rests on the notion of bringing critical democratic literacy into elementary classrooms through examples of how students are thinking about the current election.
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 12, 2016
Citation Information
Kathryn M. Obenchain, Julie L. Pennington, Melissa Bedford, Hannah Carter, et al.. "The Students are Listening: Elementary Education’s Responsibility to Young Citizens Beyond the Rituals of Democratic Citizenship" Teachers College Record (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hannah-carter/3/