Utopian Civic-Mindedness: RobertMaynard Hutchins, MortimerAdler, and the Great BooksEnterprise

The teaching of civics has dwindled since the 1960s—a casualty of political polarization

ways to give young people and the rest of us the chance to build up civic muscles

We propose “connected civics” as a form of learning that mobilizes young people’sdeeply felt interests and identities in the service of achieving the kind of civic voice andinfluence that is characteristic of participatory politics. Of course there is nothing newabout the idea that interest, affinity, and identity are drivers of political action, but toooften when it comes to learning, we can default to civic educational experiences that failto tap the kinds of cultural practices young people produce through their everyday sym-bolic expression

Within these connections, there is the opportunity to educate, empower, and advocate for all learners, and for each other.

Participating in networked publics involves the need to better understand the challenges of participating and socializing in these online spaces.

We often speak to ourselves using a terminology and jargon that is unfamiliar and unwelcoming to a citizen who has not spent time in a graduate or doctoral program.

A perfect storm has erupted around the ways in which networked publics consume and critique information online.

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