The Good Citizen

Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544395821

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The Good Citizen by Russell J. Dalton Pdf

There has been a growing chorus of political analysts with doomsday predictions of an American public that is uncivil, disengaged, and alienated. And it′s only getting worse with a younger generation of Americans who do not see the value in voting. The good news is that the bad news is wrong. In this Third Edition of The Good Citizen, Russell Dalton uses current national public opinion surveys, including new evidence from 2018 Pew Center survey data, to show how Americans are changing their views on what good citizenship means. It′s not about recreating the halcyon politics of a generation ago, but recognition that new patterns of citizenship call for new processes and new institutions that reflect the values of the contemporary American public. Trends in participation, tolerance, and policy priorities reflect a younger generation that is more engaged, more tolerant, and more supportive of social justice. The Good Citizen shows how a younger generation is creating new norms of citizenship that are leading to a renaissance of democratic participation. An important comparative chapter in the book showcases cross-national comparisons that further demonstrate the vitality of American democracy.

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Parallax Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781935209898

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Good Citizens by Thich Nhat Hanh Pdf

In Good Citizens, Thich Nhat Hanh lays out the foundation for an international solidarity movement based on a shared sense of compassion, mindful consumption, and right action. Following these principles, he believes, is the path to world peace. The book is based on our increased global interconnectedness and subsequent need for harmonious communication and a shared ethic to make our increasingly globalized world a more peaceful place. The book will be appreciated by people of all faiths and cultural backgrounds. While based on the basic Buddhist teachings of the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path, Thich Nhat Hanh boldly leaves Buddhist terms behind as he offers his contribution to the creation of a truly global and nondenominational blueprint to overcoming deep-seated divisions and a vision of a world in harmony and the preservation of the planet. Key topics include the true root causes of discrimination; the exploration of the various forms of violence; economic, social, and sexual violence. He encourages the reader to practice nonviolence in all daily interactions, elaborates on the practice of generosity, and teaches the art of deep listening and loving speech to help reach a compromise and reestablish communication after misunderstandings have escalated into conflicts. Good Citizens also contains a new wording of the Five Mindfulness Trainings (traditionally called "precepts") for lay practitioners, bringing them in line with modern-day needs and realities. In their new form they are concrete and practical guidelines of ethical conduct that can be accepted by all traditions. Good Citizens also includes the complete text of the UN Manifesto 2000, a declaration of transforming violence and creating a culture of peace for the benefit of the children of the world. It was drafted by numerous Peace Nobel Prize recipients and signed by over 100 million people worldwide. Coinciding with a US presidential election year, Good Citizens reaches across all political backgrounds and faith traditions. It shows that dualistic thinking—Republican/Democrat, Christian/Muslim—creates tension and a false sense of separateness. When we realize that we share a common ethic and moral code, we can create a community that can change the world.

Author : Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781681036502

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I Am a Good Citizen by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst Pdf

What does it mean to be a good citizen? What can kids do to become one? In this book, beginning readers will learn how they can help out to make their community a better place!

Author : Rachelle Kreisman
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781937529505

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Being a Good Citizen by Rachelle Kreisman Pdf

Whether it's raising money for a charity or cleaning up a park, getting involved in your community is a great way to help others and feel good about yourself.

Author : David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135302801

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The Good Citizen by David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

In The Good Citizen, some of the most eminent contemporary thinkers take up the question of the future of American democracy in an age of globalization, growing civic apathy, corporate unaccountability, and purported fragmentation of the American common identity by identity politics.

Author : Mary Small
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404817859

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Being a Good Citizen by Mary Small Pdf

Explains what citizenship is and ways to be a good citizen.

Author : Amy J. Wan
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822979609

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Producing Good Citizens by Amy J. Wan Pdf

Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period just before World War I, up until the Great Depression. During this time, the United States witnessed a similar anxiety over the influx of immigrants, economic uncertainty, and global political tensions. Early on, educators bore the brunt of literacy training, while also being charged with producing the right kind of citizens by imparting civic responsibility and a moral code for the workplace and society. Literacy quickly became the credential to gain legal, economic, and cultural status. In her study, Wan defines three distinct pedagogical spaces for literacy training during the 1910s and 1920s: Americanization and citizenship programs sponsored by the federal government, union-sponsored programs, and first year university writing programs. Wan also demonstrates how each literacy program had its own motivation: the federal government desired productive citizens, unions needed educated members to fight for labor reform, and university educators looked to aid social mobility. Citing numerous literacy theorists, Wan analyzes the correlation of reading and writing skills to larger currents within American society. She shows how early literacy training coincided with the demand for laborers during the rise of mass manufacturing, while also providing an avenue to economic opportunity for immigrants. This fostered a rhetorical link between citizenship, productivity, and patriotism. Wan supplements her analysis with an examination of citizen training books, labor newspapers, factory manuals, policy documents, public deliberations on citizenship and literacy, and other materials from the period to reveal the goal and rationale behind each program. Wan relates the enduring bond of literacy and citizenship to current times, by demonstrating the use of literacy to mitigate economic inequality, and its lasting value to a productivity-based society. Today, as in the past, educators continue to serve as an integral part of the literacy training and citizen-making process.

Author : Michael Schudson
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1451631626

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The Good Citizen by Michael Schudson Pdf

In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or even think they should. Is popular sovereignty a failure? Not necessarily, argues Michael Schudson in this provocative and unprecedented history of citizenship in America. Measuring voter turnout or attitudes is a poor approximation of citizenship. The meaning of voting -- and what counts as politics -- has changed dramatically over the course of our history. We have passed through three distinct eras in the definition and demonstration of good citizenship, and we are now struggling to find a footing in a fourth. When the nation was founded, being a citizen meant little more than for property-owning white males to delegate authority to a local gentleman -- and accept his complimentary glass of rum on election day. This "politics of assent" gave way early in the nineteenth century to a "politics of parties." Parties conducted elaborate campaigns of torchlight processions and monster meetings; voting day was filled with banter, banners, fighting, and drinking. Party ticket peddlers handed voters preprinted tickets to place in the ballot box before stepping over to the tavern for a few dollars' reward from the party. We now call this corruption. At the time, it was called loyalty. The third model of citizenship, ushered in by Progressive reformers, was a "politics of information." Campaigning became less emotional and more educational. Voting was by secret ballot. With civil-service reform, parties were limited in the rewards they could bestow. This was the era of the "informed voter." Under this scheme, the twentieth century has been ruled by everyone, and no one, all at once. Today, after the rights revolution, political participation takes place in schools, at home, at work, and in the courts. We have made "informed citizenship" an overwhelming task. Schudson argues that it is time for a new model, in which we stop expecting everyone to do everything. The new citizenship must rest on citizens who are monitors of political danger rather than walking encyclopedias of governmental news. This fascinating tour of the past makes it possible to imagine a very different -- and much more satisfying -- future.

Author : Mary Ann Hoffman
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433948534

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I Am a Good Citizen by Mary Ann Hoffman Pdf

Learn how to be a good citizen.

Author : Emily James
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781515772071

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How to Be a Good Citizen by Emily James Pdf

It's very important to be a good citizen. But what does that mean? Readers will learn through examples in a fun question and answer format that taking pride in what you do and trying to make the world a better place shows good citizenship.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10
Category : English language
ISBN : 1849765308

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The Good Citizen's Alphabet by Bertrand Russell Pdf

E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true ; J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies ; M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't . . . Enter the delightful, satirical world of the Good Citizen, according to one of the best-known writers and philosophers of modern times. In this pocket-sized book, Bertrand Russell s witty, subversive A Z encompasses pedants and nincompoops, knowledge and virtue, providing a diverting and entertaining guide to the English alphabet. Brought back into print for the first time since the 1970s, the brief texts are illustrated with the lively drawings of Franciszka Themerson, a leading figure of the twentieth century avant-garde, whose apt and amusing images add an anarchic spirit to this delightful gift book perfect for linguistic novices and eloquent eggheads alike. Facsimile pages reproduce the vintage look and feel of the original 1953 publication. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was one of the foremost philosophers and logicians of the twentieth century. Franciszka Themerson (1907–88) was a Polish artist and designer, who became a central figure of the Polish avant-garde.

Author : Robert Lerner,Althea K. Nagai,Stanley Rothman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033962344

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Molding the Good Citizen by Robert Lerner,Althea K. Nagai,Stanley Rothman Pdf

A series of culture wars are being fought in America today; Lerner, Nagai, and Rothman contend that one key battleground is the nation's high school texts. The authors argue that today's textbook controversies, as exemplified in the proposed National Standards for the Study of United States and World History, reflect changes in American public philosophy and the education profession. Conventional wisdom among students of the curriculum is that the major threat to freedom of the schools comes from the religious right. While this may have been true at one time, Lerner, Nagai, and Rothman assert that the major thrust today involves the imposition on schools of the ideology of particular groups that seek to use education as a mechanism for changing society. They document the growing influence of these groups, and their supporters among educators, through an extensive quantitative content analysis of leading high school history texts over the past 40 years and a historical analysis of how this outlook and the willingness to impose it became part of educators' conventional wisdom. The authors document the growing influence of these groups, and their supporters among educators, in two ways. First, they present an extensive quantitative content analysis of leading high school history texts over the past 40 years, demonstrating in detail the feminist and multicultural perspectives that have come to dominate them. Second, they provide a historical analysis of how this outlook and the willingness to impose it became part of educators' conventional wisdom, tracing current policies back to the influence of the Progressive education movement led by John Dewey. This controversial book will be of exceptional interest to the general public as well as to researchers and students of education, public policy, and American intellectual history.

Author : Adrian Vigliano
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780431194400

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Being a Good Citizen by Adrian Vigliano Pdf

Read Being a Good Citizen to learn what it means to be a good citizen, as well as helpful tips for being a good citizen at home, at school and with friends. Simple text and playful illustrations show the reader that everyone can be a good citizen every day. This Acorn Read-Aloud is an excellent tool for introducing readers to citizenship.

Author : Josh Hershberger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578766361

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The Good Citizen by Josh Hershberger Pdf

Author : David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135302870

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The Good Citizen by David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta Pdf

In The Good Citizen, some of the most eminent contemporary thinkers take up the question of the future of American democracy in an age of globalization, growing civic apathy, corporate unaccountability, and purported fragmentation of the American common identity by identity politics.