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HIBAR Research Alliance webinar on October 6 Rebuilding Civic Education

  • 1.  HIBAR Research Alliance webinar on October 6 Rebuilding Civic Education

    Posted 09-29-2021 21:21
    Here is also a Brookings report somewhat pertinent to the topic of the webinar: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/07/02/why-are-states-banning-critical-race-theory/

    From: HIBAR Research Alliance <hibar.research.alliance@ubc.ca>
    Sent: September-23-21 7:03 PM

    Rebuilding Civic Education: How embracing complexity and controversy led to unexpected consensus

     

     

    JOIN US FOR THE NEXT HIBAR RESEARCH ALLIANCE WEBINAR:

     

    Rebuilding Civic Education:

    How embracing complexity and controversy led to unexpected consensus

     

    Wednesday, October 6, 2021

    11am-noon PT (2-3pm ET)

     

    All are welcome - please feel free to share this event notice.

    The constitutional democracy of the United States is in peril, and there is a widespread loss of confidence in government and civic order. Generations of students have not received the high quality education in history and civics that they need, and deserve, to prepare them for informed and engaged citizenship, and the time has come to rebuild civic education. Leaders of an inspiring and large-scale HIBAR research project, the Educating for American Democracy initiative, set out to tackle the challenge of developing a balanced, national-consensus framework and a proposed plan of action for civic and history education.

    In this webinar, three key participants will describe their collective journey to work together, even through many disagreements, and across diverse and numerous stakeholders, toward a shared goal to fundamentally improve civic education in the United States. In part because of the process, the EAD team produced a robust framework that has gained overwhelming support from the K-12 civics and history communities, and well beyond.

    Webinar speakers:

     

    Paul Carrese

    Founding Director, School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership

    Arizona State University

     

    Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg

    Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)

    Tufts University

    Tammy Waller

    Director of K–12 Social Studies and World Languages

    Arizona Department of Education

     

    Educating for American Democracy (EAD) is an unprecedented effort that convened a diverse group of scholars and educators to create a Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy. This required acquiring a deep, evidence-based understanding of key issues frommany perspectives and creatively designing, developing, and evaluating new approaches. The roadmap provides guidance and an inquiry framework that states, local school districts, and educators can use to transform teaching of history and civics to meet the needs of a diverse 21st century K–12 student body. The work was supported by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education.

    The webinar speakers will describe how the initiative brought together hundreds of ideologically, philosophically, and demographically diverse historians, political scientists, and educators. The project required multiple task forces and working groups, each one grappling with a key design challenge. Together, the collaborators learned to approach disagreement and controversy as an opportunity for learning rather than as a problem to be overcome and, in doing so, they achieved much greater consensus than they had anticipated. The creative tension that resulted from conflicting priorities and perspectives was productively harnessed, leading to energetic debate, new perspectives, and alternative approaches that would not otherwise have been developed. The presenters will share their experience and thoughts about how the lessons they learned may be applied to HIBAR research challenges in other fields.

     

    REGISTER HERE

     

    For more information about the HIBAR Research Alliance, visit www.hibar-research.org.

     



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    Ke Cao
    Assistant Professor
    Wilfrid Laurier University
    Waterloo ON
    Canada
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