Teaching Controversial Political Issues in the Age of Social Media Research from Israel 1st Edition by Rakefet Erlich Ron, Shahar Gindi ISBN 9781032265995 103226599X

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ISBN 10: 103226599X
ISBN 13: 9781032265995
Author: Rakefet Erlich Ron, Shahar Gindi

Teaching Controversial Political Issues in the Age of Social Media Research from Israel 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. The benefits of controversial political issues (CPI)

Contribution to cognitive skills

Contribution to social-emotional skills

Contribution to democratic values and civic discourse

2. The Israeli context

Israeli society: Divisions and power relations

The religious rift in Israel

The national rift: Arabs and Jews in Israel

The Israeli education system: Segregation and power relations

Avoidance of CPI

The (not so) hidden agenda

The Arab education system in Israel

Multicultural and political-educational aspects of teacher training in Israel

3. Alone in the forefront: Challenges in teaching CPI in the era of polarization and social media

The era of polarization

Escalation and polarization

The internet as an arena of polarization

“Fake news”

“Mother, should I trust the government?”20

The gap between civic education and political reality

Teachers’ handling of students’ racist comments in class

Racism

Handling racism in the Israeli education system: Policy vs. reality

Teacher strategies for handling racism

Summary

4. What stops teachers from talking about CPI?

Knowledge of policy

Knowledge of the topic

Feeling supported: Does anyone have my back?

Teacher’s personal interest

Teachers’ cultural competence

Teachers’ sense of self-efficacy

The underprivileged position of minority teachers

Minority teachers’ coping mechanism: Conformity

How minority teachers overcome the obstacles: Bargaining with the system

High-intensity conflict and minority teachers

5. Teachers in different political and cultural contexts

Global vs. local influences

Policy regarding teachers’ freedom of expression in different local contexts

1 Ministry policy

2 Teacher training and norms of practice

3 The principal

Teachers’ experience

Postmodernism

The Teflon fantasy

The supremacy of emotions and the subjective experience

Modernism: Drawing the line in the sand

Clean strategies: Simplification and reflective questioning

Avoidance of conflict and disbelief in racism

Summary and conclusions

6. Teachers’ professional identities and role dilemmas

Professional identity and political issues

Civics and social science teachers

Teachers’ emotional role in CPI discussions

Disclosure

Grey areas

Avoidance

Passivity

Own it!

Drawing boundaries

Didactic rational approach

Initiating a discussion

Grey areas and teachers’ role perception

7. Teachers’ emotional role in CPI discussions

Social-emotional aspects of CPI

SEL in the Israeli context

SEL skills for CPI discussions

Intrapersonal skills

Interpersonal skills

Civic skills

The hierarchy and interdependence of skills

CPI in stressful times

The social-emotional-cognitive back-and-forth in CPI discussions

Identifying students’ emotional needs

Emotional venting

SEL during the different developmental stages

Summary

8. Understanding the students: A developmental approach

Kindergarten age

Elementary school years

Social-emotional issues in elementary school

Digital literacy in elementary school

Adolescence

Adolescence, discourse abilities, and critical thinking

Conformity and adolescence

Overprotective parenting

Overprotection and CPI

Social media

Digital literacy skills in adolescence

Conclusion

9. Recommended strategies for effectively handling CPI

Practical tools

Setting the ground rules1

Handling spontaneous explosive comments

Identifying fallacies

Teaching styles

Teaching about the relativity of truth

Using vignettes to stimulate discussion

Teaching students to evaluate online information

Teachers’ continuum of positions

Between didacticism and skepticism

Between analysis and empathy

Between the directive and the postmodern

Summary

10. Summary and conclusions

Teachers

Teacher trainers

Research

Closing note

Appendix: Research designs and methodologies

Index

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