Developing Democratic Citizens: Teaching Social Education K-16
Sponsored by:
The Rouge Forum
&
Warner Graduate School of Education, University of Rochester
When: February 27, 1999
Where: Hoyt Hall, University of Rochester
Featured speakers:
Roy Rosenzweig (Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
K-12 teachers and students and university students and faculty
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
9:00 a.m.—Registration and coffee
9:15 a.m.—Welcome and overview of day, David Hursh
9:30 a.m.—Keynote address by Roy Rosenzweig
10:30—Break
10:45—Democratic teaching, teaching democracy (Small group sessions):
John Dewey, democracy and education (Robert Westbrook)
Democracy and teaching about work (Doug Noble)
Democratic schooling (Lin Lin, Severine Yagaza, Ellen Boesenberg)
Teaching social justice
12:00—Lunch
12:30 p.m.—Democratic teaching, teaching democracy (Small group sessions):
Democracy in the classroom (Aggie Seneway and her fourth grade students)
Democracy and social studies education (Rich Gibson, Steve Fleury & E. Wayne Ross)
The arts, social studies and democracy (Sonia James-Wilson)
Democracy and high school social studies
1:45 p.m.—Using media to teach social history (Rosenzweig)
3:00 p.m.—Summing up and moving on (Hursh and Rosenzweig)
3:15 p.m.—Adjourn
CONFERENCE FEES:
Keynote address only: Free
Conference (including lunch and articles): $10.00 (without lunch): $5.00 For more information contact:
David Hursh
WGSEHD, University of Rochester
PO Box 270425
Rochester, NY 14627-0425
email:< dhrh@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
To register for the conference contact:
Michelle Erklenze
Dewey Hall, WGSEHD
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
The Rouge Forum 