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Practical Theory: Teaching Political and Economic Citizenship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2010

J. Wesley Martin
J. Wesley Martin
Affiliation:
Keene State College
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How can philosophical instruction inform practical analysis and decision making among college students in a way that demonstrably benefits them as individual members of our polity and economy? I pose this question because each year, I introduce classic political theory to first- and second-year college students who simultaneously confront a fiscal crisis in the American state and profound financial challenges as individuals, and I want to ensure that the concepts and analytical strategies we study as theory can meet their most pressing practical needs during the first decade that they are out of college.

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The Teacher Symposium
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 327 - 331
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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