Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. The Evolving Citizen : : American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement / / Jay P. Childers.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Childers, Jay P.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1 American youth: Who they are and why they matter --; 2 American high school: Teenagers and scholastic journalism --; 3 Dislocated cosmopolitans --; 4 Removed volunteers --; 5 Protective critics --; 6 Independent joiners --; 7 American evolution, democratic engagement, and civic education --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271060002; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271060002?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jay P. Childers.

It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, American democracy is in trouble.The Evolving Citizen challenges this decline thesis and argues instead that democratic engagement has not gotten worse—it has simply changed. Through an analysis of seven high school newspapers from 1965 to 2010, this book shows that young people today, according to what they have to say for themselves, are just as enmeshed in civic and political life as the adolescents who came before them. American youth remain good citizens concerned about their communities and hopeful that they can help make a difference. But as The Evolving Citizen demonstrates, today’s youth understand and perform their roles as citizens differently because the world they live in has changed remarkably over the last half century.