A democracy thrives when its citizens exercise their right to engage in every level of government. There are many events happening at the university that are related to democracy and to the issues that voters care about. Check out Happening Michigan , and search for key words related to issues important to you, for example: election, democracy, climate change, etc.
Below is a curated list of learning resources that will help learners understand the complexities of democratic systems, and critically examine important social issues. Go Paperless with Digital. Get smart. Sign up for our email newsletter. Sign Up. Support science journalism. Knowledge awaits.
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Gore just won the primary in North Carolina for the Democrats. Always ask parents. Overhear parents talking and ask questions. Went with mom to vote. Also, after a unit of study, teachers can go back to this initial discussion and compare it to later student writing or conversation to see what knowledge has been learned.
As teachers plan how students will learn about the elections and how they will demonstrate their knowledge, a valuable resource to include is the World Wide Web, available through the Internet.
A variety of web locations are designed to permit teachers to integrate election activities in age-appropriate, authentic, and meaningful ways in their daily lessons. Encouraging students to study voting, politics, and campaign issues through the Internet is enticing to them, more so than the more traditional methods of lecture, textbook study, or following newspapers, magazines, radio, and television reports.
As students work on activities individually and in teams, they use their intrapersonal and interpersonal intelligences. These diagrams of the concepts, people, documents, and campaign issues allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the structures and processes in ways that linear presentations cannot. The activities presented here focus on using the web to engage elementary students in the upcoming election with the ultimate goal of producing informed voters in future elections.
Students gather information from multiple sources and use technology to analyze and present their findings. The first two activities involve students gathering information from websites. The remaining activities involve students using technology to analyze information and present what they have learned. Finally, a variety of websites are listed with brief descriptions for teacher resources in planning social studies lessons and activities focused on the particular political and election interests of their students.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition, 5th edition. Delli Carpini, Michael and Scott Keeter. Dewhurst, J. Frederic, John Coppock, P. Lamartine Yates, and et al. New York: Twentieth Century Fund. Easterlin, Richard. Fiorina, Morris. Retrospective Voting in American Elections. Gelman, Andrew and Gary King. Gerber, Elizabeth. Gibson, James and Gregory Caldeira.
Gilens, Martin. Goldin, Claudia. Richard Sutch and Susan Carter, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, Goldin, Claudia and Lawrence Katz. Gordon, Stacy and Gary Segura. Graetz, Michael and Ian Shapiro. Gutmann, Amy and Dennis Thompson. Why Deliberative Democracy? Hacker, Jacob and Paul Pierson. Halpern, Diane. March 14, B4-B5.
The Federalist, ed. Jacob Cooke. Hochschild, Jennifer. What's Fair? American Beliefs about Distributive Justice. Hutchings, Vincent. Jefferson, Thomas Washington, D. C: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association. Kateb, George. Keyssar, Alexander. New York: Basic Books.
Kinder, Donald and D. Roderick Kiewiet. Kohn, Nina. Kuklinski, James and Paul Quirk. Lau, Richard and David Redlawsk. Macedo, Stephen, ed. Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement.
New York: Oxford University Press. Manza, Jeff and Christopher Uggen. Marcus, George, W. Russell Neuman, and Michael MacKuen. Affective Intelligence and Political Judgment. Chicago IL: University of Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Mill, John Stuart. Considerations on Representative Government. Mondak, Jeffery and Belinda Davis.
National Center For Education Statistics. Washington D. Department of Education. Neuman, W. Russell, Marion Just, and Ann Crigler. Education and Democratic Citizenship in America. Peterson, Merrill. Popkin, Samuel. Bernard Grofman, ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, Prior, Markus. Randel, Don. Ravitch, Diane and Chester Finn. Scalia, Laura. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Who Sings in the Heavenly Chorus?
Political Inequality and the Pressure System. Schudson, Michael. New York: Free Press. Schumpeter, Joseph.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Shelby, Tommie. Smalley, Suzanne and Sarah Kliff. June 9, Somin, Ilya. Sunstein, Cass. Walzer, Michael.
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