Literature for Democracy: Reading as a Social ActSupporting the idea of democracy in the classroom, this book suggests that it encourages us to find ways to maintain a relationship with those who are different from us. Pradl shows that student readers can build up their own readings of texts working in collaboration in a democratic classroom. |
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