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Teaching for Statesmanship
A Virtual Discussion with Shilo Brooks, Michael Promisel, and Hans Zeiger
Tuesday, March 11 at 3:00PM ET
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As teachers across the country mark Civic Learning Week in March, we invite you to join a distinguished panel of Jack Miller Center scholars for a conversation about incorporating the serious study of statesmanship in both K-12 and college curriculum.
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What can America’s great leaders teach us about citizenship today? How do their decisions reveal the enduring principles of our political tradition? And how can the next generation of leaders attain the intellectual grounding needed for statesmanship in the 21st century?
Join us on Tuesday, March 11, at 3:00 PM for a webinar on teaching statesmanship with Jack Miller Center president Hans Zeiger, Princeton University’s Shilo Brooks, and Catholic University of America’s Michael Promisel. This live webinar is free and open to the public.
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Shilo Brooks is Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He is author of Nietzsche’s Culture War, in addition to scholarly and journalistic articles on a variety of topics in politics and the humanities. His teaching and research interests lie in the history of political philosophy, politics and literature, and statesmanship.
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Michael Promisel is Assistant Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America. He teaches courses spanning ancient Greek, Medieval, and American political thought and his research draws on these traditions to reflect on timely questions concerning leadership, virtue, liberal education, and Catholic social thought. His scholarship has appeared in the Review of Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Political Science Reviewer, and Polis: The Journal of Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought.
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WATCH: "Statesmanship and the American Presidency"
Diana Schaub and Hans Zeiger
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In honor of Presidents Day, Diana Schaub (Loyola University Maryland) and JMC president Hans Zeiger discuss George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and their incredible approaches to statesmanship.
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READ: "Civic Thought and Political Science"
James Stoner / National Affairs
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JMC scholar James R. Stoner Jr. wrote a piece in the latest issue of National Affairs examining the relationship between political science and the emerging field of civic thought:
How does the emerging field of civic thought relate to that long-established discipline [political science]?
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Are the two so at odds that one precludes the other? Or do their differences allow them to supplement one another in the quest for truth?
To answer these questions, we will need to explore how the field of civic thought both diverges from and converges with that of political science. Broadly speaking, civic thought differs from political science in three ways: in its approach to facts and values, in its concern for the particular versus the universal, and in its attitude toward the use of expertise in political life. It is worth considering each of these in turn...
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READ: "American students need civic education"
Matthew Brogdon and Robert Burton / Deseret News
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revolution and war. While Gen. George Washington concentrates his will on defeating the British, Thomas Jefferson already turns toward the next great obstacle: laying the foundations that will allow a new government to secure the people’s safety and happiness. Surprisingly, the foundation most on Jefferson’s mind is not political or even constitutional; it’s educational. A constitutional republic needs enlightened citizens educated for self-government...
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The Jack Miller Center is a nonpartisan educational venture to advance the work of scholars who teach and study the ideas, documents, and history we hold in common as Americans. We seek to grow the talent pipeline of university educators who teach the American political tradition, to forge new models for university-based training of K-12 civics and history teachers, and to build a diverse coalition of Americans to ignite a civic education renaissance.
To learn more about our work, visit jackmillercenter.org.
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