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University of South Florida Scholar Commons College of Education Publications College of Education 7-1-2001 Theory and research in social education 29/03 National Council for the Social Studies. College and University Faculty Assembly Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/coedu_pub Part of the Education Commons Scholar Commons Citation National Council for the Social Studies. College and University Faculty Assembly, "Theory and research in social education 29/03 " (2001). College of Education Publications. Paper 110. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/coedu_pub/110 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Education at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in College of Education Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 4W SEARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION IN THIS ISSUE From the Editor E. Wayne Ross Waiting for the Great Leap Forward Special Issue : Connected Citizenship Kevin D. Vinson Connected Citizenship Lisa J. Cary The Refusals of Citizenship Neil O. Houser Ethical Citizenship in a Postmodern World Jeffrey J. Kuzmic J. Joseph Bishop Democracy as a Cross-Cultural Concept Gregory E. Hamot Dawn Shinew Disrupt, Transgress, and Invent Possibilities Dialogue Chara Bohan The Meaning of Citizenship in the 21st Century Tyrone Howard Connection and Democracy Viewpoint John Marciano Civic Illiteracy Book Reviews E. Wayne Ross What's Left? Valerie Ooka Pang Reducing Prejudice Andra M.akler Participating at Acceptable Levels of Risk Howard D. Mehlinger Through German Eyes The Journal of the College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies Volume 29 Number 3 Summer 2001 ThEORYC ) YZRESFARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION Volume 29 Number 3 Summer 2001 NCSS The Official Journal of the College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies Published quarterly, Theory and Research in Social Education is a general review open to all social studies educators, social scientists, historians, and philosophers. A general statement of purpose can be found at the end of the journal . ©Copyright 2001 by the College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies. All rights reserved . THEORY AND RESEARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION © 2001 College and University Faculty Assembly of National Council for the Social Studies . 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E-mail : <ewayneross@hotmail .co m> Correspondence related to subscription, membership, back issues, and change of address and advertising should be addressed to : Membership Department, National Council for the Social Studies, 3501 Newark St ., NW, Washington, DC 20016. Information for Authors can be found in each issue and on the CUFA home page : <http://alliance .utsa .edu/cufa/index.htm> . Theory and Research in Social Education is indexed in Current Contents, Cur- rent Index to journals in Education (ERIC), Education Abstracts, Education Index, Psychological Abstracts, and Social Science Citation Index . FAARGH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION Editor E. Wayne Ross University of Louisville Associate Editors Ceola Ross Baber University of North Carolina at Greensboro Valerie Ooka Pang San Diego State University Book Review Editor Perry Marker Sonoma State University Editorial Board Susan Adler University of Missouri, Kansas City Jane Bernard-Powers San Francisco State University Kathy Bickmore University of Toronto Jere Brophy Michigan State,University Jeffrey W. Cornett University of Central Florida O. L . Davis, Jr. The University of Texas at Austin Terrie L . Epstein Hunter College, CUNY Ron Evans San Diego State University Stephen C. Fleury Le Moyne College Geneva Gay University of Washington Rich Gibson San Diego State University S. G. Grant State University of New York at Buffalo David Hursh University of Rochester Joel Jenne Salisbury State University Marilyn Johnston The Ohio State University Gloria Ladson-Billings University of Wisconsin, Madison Linda Levstik University of Kentucky Andra Makler Lewis & Clark College Merry M . Merryfield The Ohio State University Petra Munro Louisiana State University Susan Noffke University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Walter C . Parker University of Washington Warren Prior Deakin University, Australia Marc Pruyn New Mexico State University Peter Seixas University of British Columbia William B. Stanley University of Colorado, Boulder Loraine Stewart Wake Forest University Kenneth Teitelbaum Kent State University Lynda Stone University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Stephen J. Thorn ton Teachers College, Columbia University Bruce VanSledright University of Maryland, College Park Kevin D. Vinson University of Arizona Rahima Wade University of Iowa Michael Whelan Montclair State University Editorial Assistant Stefan Moorhead Second Annual CUFA Retreat January 18-20, 2002 Hosted By University of South Florida Tampa, Fl This year, we will continue to explore the ways in which technology can support our goals for social studies teaching and learning as well as linking that discussion to the digital divide in technology and diversity issues within social studies . For more information see : http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/teacherlink/social/cufa/ or contact Margaret Smith Crocco Teachers College, Columbia University 212-678-3174 Email : msc38@columbia .ed u Michael J . Berson University of South Florida 813-974-7917 Email : berson@tempest .coedu .usf .edu ELIZABETH YEAGER will assume the editorship of Theory and Research in Social Education beginning with Volume 30 (2oo2). Please direct all inquiries and manuscripts to Professor Yeager at : Elizabeth Yeager College of Education The University of Florida 2404 Norman Hall Gainesville, Florida 32611 (352) 392 - 9191 ext . 242 (352) 392 -9193 fax eyeagerc c oe .ufl .ed u IN SOCIAL EDUCATION Volume 29 Number 3 Summer 2001 FROM THE EDITOR Waiting for the Great Leap Forward 394 E. Wayne Ross SPECIAL ISSUE: CONNECTED CITIZENSHIP-PERSPECTIVES ON DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION Kevin D. Vinson, Guest Editor INTRODUCTION Connected Citizenship 400 Kevin D. Vinson FEATURES The Refusals of Citizenship : Normalizing Practices in Social Educational Discourses 405 Lisa J. Cary Ethical Citizenship in a Postmodern World :Toward a More Connected 431 Approach to Social Education for the Twenty-first Century Neil O. Houser & Jeffrey J. Kuzmic Democracy as a Cross-Cultural Concept: Promises and Problems 463 J. Joseph Bishop & Gregory E. Hamot Disrupt,Transgress, and Invent Possibilities : Feminists' Interpretations 488 of Educating for Democratic Citizenship Dawn M. Shinew DIALOGUE The Meaning of Citizenship in the 21st Century 517 Chara Bohan Connection and Democracy 524 Tyrone Howard VIEWPOINT Civic Illiteracy :The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of American Youth 531 John Marciano BOOK REVIEWS What's Left? 541 E. Wayne Ross Reducing Prejudice 550 Valerie Ooka Pang Participating at Acceptable Levels of Risk 555 Andra Makler Through German Eyes: Social Studies and the German Experience 565 Howard D. Mehlinger IN SOCIAL EDUCATION From the Editor Waiting for the Great Leap Forward : From Democratic Principles to Democratic Reality E. Wayne Ross University of Louisville US students came out near the top of a recent 28-nation study of civics education. The International Civic Education Study tested 90,000 14-year-olds in 24 "democratic" countries . US ninth-graders were ranked sixth overall, indicating that they were among the most knowl- edgeable in the world about what are accepted as the fundamental principles of democracy. That's the good news . The bad news is that the study, conducted by the Netherlands- based International Association for the Evaluation of Educational At- tainment (IEA), concludes