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Teaching Students To Discuss Controversial Public Issues. ERIC Digest.
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Hess, Diana – 2001
Talking with others, especially people with different viewpoints, about matters of public and common concern is a basic pro-democracy skill and act. For that reason, teaching young people how to participate more effectively in discussions of controversial public issues (CPI) has long been a major goal of social studies educators. In most social…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development