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Author Stitzlein, Sarah Marie, 1979- author.

Title Learning how to hope : reviving democracy through our schools and civil society / Sarah M. Stitzlein
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Hope in America? -- Looking back to move forward -- Hope as Habits -- Hope and democracy -- Teaching hope, not grit -- Learning how to hope
Summary Offering an informed call to citizen engagement, Stitzlein directly addresses presidential campaigns, including how to select candidates who support citizens in enacting and sustaining hope. Drawing on examples from American history and pragmatist philosophy, this text explains how hope can be cultivated in schools and sustained through action in our communities - it describes what hope is, why it matters to democracy, and how to teach it
Notes Also issued in print: 2019
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2019)
Subject Democracy and education -- United States
Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- United States
Hope.
Civil society -- United States
Political participation -- United States
Citizenship -- Study and teaching
Civil society
Democracy and education
Hope
Political participation
Politics and government
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
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