Full Description
Politics affects everything we do. Every citizen needs to understand how the system works and to learn the skills required to influence decisions. The world's most urgent problems are political; for democracy to work, everyone needs the ability to do politics as a basic skill, like reading and writing.This comprehensive handbook, with its wide-ranging and intriguing case studies, provides the basic text for a new subject of practical politics that should be offered in every education institution. It affords insight into power and democracy at every level: family, office and state, and shows how education in practical politics can enable people to recognize and deal with political problems.
Contents
CONTENTSeducation for practical politics; 2. What is politics, really?; 3. Politics as social problem solving; 4. Political arenas: Where politics happens 5. Political education of the powerful; 6. All politics is office politics; 7. Power and its uses; 8. The civic university: Practical political education by universities and colleges; 9. Foundations for learning democracy; 10. Whole life learning; 11. Making the case for teaching practical politics; 12. How to create a curriculum for democracy; Conclusion: Next steps; References; Index
