ABSTRACT

Civic culture is a term for how citizens actively live out, perform, and create public life through our habits, actions, words, and public work. A vital civic culture, with an engaged citizenry, is one of the measures of a healthy democratic republic. In this inquiry, we explore how civic education—holistically envisioned across disciplines and types of curriculum—might be imagined in light of civic cultural engagement and creation. We use the recent #NeverAgainMSD youth activism against gun violence as a single case study through which to examine what educators can learn from youth enacting citizenship in real time, contributing to a vital civic culture in an era when many lament youth apathy and disconnection from public life. We argue that much civics education ignores the worth of political emotion, and we describe both the important role of affect in civic culture and curricular possibilities for working with students around the intersections of affect, civic culture, and public work as citizens.

摘要

公民文化是公民如何通过我们的习惯，行为，言语和公共工作积极生活，表演和创造公共生活的术语。至关重要的公民文化和公民的参与是建立健康民主共和国的措施之一。在本次调查中，我们将探讨如何根据公民文化的参与和创造来想象跨学科和课程类型的整体公民教育。我们使用最近的#NeverAgainMSD青少年反对枪支暴力活动作为一个案例研究，通过该案例研究了教育者可以实时从制定公民身份的青年中学到什么，在这个时代让许多感叹青年冷漠和与公众脱节的时代形成了重要的公民文化生活。我们认为，很多公民教育都忽略了政治情感的价值，