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What is a Patriotic Education?
A Virtual Discussion with Steven B. Smith, Paul Carrese, and Thomas Kelly
Tuesday, April 15 at 3:00PM ET
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We are in the midst of a civics renaissance, with a growing and diverse call for improving civic education nationally. But what role does patriotism play in this movement to form informed and engaged citizens?
Join us Tuesday, April 15 at 3:00 pm ET for a conversation with Yale University political science professor Steven B. Smith and Arizona State professor and Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership, Paul Carrese about the meaning of patriotism and civic education. JMC's own vice president of academic programs, Thomas Kelly, will moderate.
We’ll ask: Is it useful to think of civics as a “patriotic education,” or does the phrase just turn the subject into another partisan skirmish? What pre-partisan principles of the American Founding are worth recovering in an age of extremism and alienation? How can we reconcile the universal search for truth which characterizes liberal education with the loyalties commanded by our patriotic love of country?
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JMC Webinar Series
Teaching for Statesmanship
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In honor of Civic Learning Week, JMC president Hans Zeiger sat down with Miller Fellows Shilo Brooks (Princeton University) and Michael Promisel (Catholic University of America) to discuss the serious study of statesmanship and how we can integrate it into American classrooms to better educate our future leaders.
Did you miss this exciting webinar?
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Wall Street Journal
William Anthony Hay: "'Shots Heard Round the World' Review: America's Transatlantic Revolution"
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Miller Fellow William Anthony Hay (Summer Institute 2008) appeared in the Wall Street Journal last weekend, discussing John Ferling's new book, Shots Heard Round the World:
The American Revolution pitted colonists against the British Empire in a struggle that resembled David’s stand against Goliath, but it also became a global war in which Britain defied an allied coalition alone. In his international history of the Revolutionary War written for the 250th anniversary of its outbreak, John Ferling brings Europe and its rivalries into the
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familiar story of American independence. With Shots Heard Round the World, Mr. Ferling, a professor emeritus of history at the University of West Georgia, shows not only why nations fought but also how they waged a protracted struggle whose outcome remained in doubt to the end...
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Providence Magazine
Jack Miller and Pete Peterson: "The Judeo-Christian Nation"
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being a far more fractious time than our own. And yet, time and time again, Americans have united around the principles of government founded on the consent of the people and the natural rights of all as articulated in the Hebrew Bible.
At each perilous stage in our history–from the arrival of the Pilgrims to the Founding, from the Civil War to the fight for Civil Rights–the Hebrew Bible has provided both the principles and the stories upon which Americans could realize a “more perfect union.”...
Read the rest of the piece at Providence Magazine >>
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RealClear Education
Michael Weiser: "Civics Worthy of America's 250th Birthday"
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JMC Chair Michael Weiser recently wrote for RealClear Education on how we can support K-12 civics teachers as they face challenges in the classroom:
Anyone who has lived in this decade can tell you that the United States of America has had some hard days. During another bitter election season, there were many dispiriting moments. Civil dialogue about the many issues we face was all but absent.
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Especially troubling was a November 4th Wall Street Journal report that civics teachers not only steered clear of the election but also avoided discussing any current political issue in their classrooms...
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About the Jack Miller Center
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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