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Helping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy argue that teachers will make better professional judgments about these issues if they aim toward creating "political classrooms, " which engage students in deliberation...

Based on the findings from a large, mixed-method study about discussions of political issues within high school classrooms, The Political Classroom provides an in-depth look at how real teachers engage their classrooms in discussions of political controversy.