Preschools around the country are starting students early on civics education.
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Preschool teacher Tinhinane Meziane, left, listens to her students on what characters of the TV show PAW Patrol they will vote for as their favorite character at the ACCA Child Development Center, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Annandale, Va. The students are getting foundational lessons on how to live in a democracy by allowing them to regularly vote on different things through out the day. at the U.S.
The most important civics lesson preschools can impart is “social democracy,” said Dan Gartrell, an early education expert. His book on teaching preschoolers about democracy, “Education for a Civil Society,” is used by ACCA and other preschools. Around ages 3 or 4, a child is “starting to be a real community member and contributing to the classroom community and thinking a little bit broader about the world,” Robertson said.
In Room 11, 3-year-old Jade, who donned pink sneakers that lit up when she stepped, explained why she was backing Skye.In Room 13, teachers created ballots in English and Spanish. When they asked the class who had won the election, one boy confidently piped up: “Me!” Ballivian said many politicians could learn something from coming back to preschool — things like how to weather disappointment and how to think about the well-being of people who are unlike them.
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