Pub Date : 2019-12-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190062651.003.0002
S. Stitzlein
This chapter lays the philosophical groundwork for a new account of hope. It begins with the deep American roots of pragmatist philosophy to show how that tradition aligns with key elements of democracy and American life today. To set a foil for a pragmatist account of political hope, it describes problematic ways in which hope is often understood in more individualist ways by theologians, philosophers, and positive psychologists. Then, using an accessible approach and avoiding jargon, the chapter lays out central elements of pragmatism that build together to form an account of hope. These include inquiry, growth, truth, meliorism, and habits.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190062651.003.0005
S. Stitzlein
This chapter locates teaching hope as a central task of schools, especially within social studies classes and citizenship education. It exposes worrisome problems with one seemingly hope-aligned educational approach that has gained some traction in schools: developing grit. That approach is problematically individualist and perpetuates injustices and inequities in our society, which may perpetuate despair. To depict a better alternative to grit, this chapter describes quality approaches to citizenship education and locates cultivating habits of hope within them. More than teaching grit, teaching hope provides an approach that is more flexible, social, and political, all the while promoting action that improves one’s life and those of other people.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190062651.001.0001
S. Stitzlein
This chapter moves from a broader discussion of quality citizenship education and developing trends among youth to looking specifically at how hope and democratic habits might be taught in schools and civil society. It includes a call to develop communities of inquiry, nurture communication and deliberation, foster criticality and dissent, cultivate imagination and storytelling, view citizenship as shared fate, and build trust. It describes classroom practices and activities that can foster habits of hope, as well as opportunities to employ related skills and dispositions of citizenship. It extends this education beyond schools and youth into adults and civil organizations, where larger impact on today’s democracy may be made.
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Pub Date : 2019-12-19DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190062651.003.0004
S. Stitzlein
This chapter explains why hope matters for democracy. It offers insight into both what Americans hope for and how they hope together. It shows how democracy and hope are mutually supportive of one another. This chapter considers how Americans work toward goals they set through hoping—a verb, a practice, rather than a noun or object we possess. It demonstrates how hoping connects us to other people and how our aims are best realized by working together with others. It describes how Americans might work together to tell new stories about our country and to set new goals for democracy and bring them into fruition. In part, this is done through harnessing democratic dissent—converting citizens’ frustrations into social movements that bring about change.
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